Maximal and minimal weak solutions for elliptic problems with nonlinearity on the boundary

Abstract

This paper deals with the existence of weak solutions for semilinear elliptic equation with nonlinearity on the boundary. We establish the existence of a maximal and a minimal weak solution between an ordered pair of sub- and supersolution for both monotone and nonmonotone nonlinearities. We use iteration argument when the nonlinearity is monotone. For the nonmonotone case, we utilize the surjectivity of a pseudomonotone and coercive operator, Zorn's lemma and a version of Kato's inequality.

Keywords

• elliptic problem
• nonlinear boundary conditions
• maximal and minimal weak solution
• pseudomonotone operator
• kato's inequality