Uniqueness of entire solutions to quasilinear equations of $ p $-Laplace type
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- 1 January 2022
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- Published by American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Mathematics in Engineering
- Vol. 5 (3) , 1-33
Abstract
We prove the uniqueness property for a class of entire solutions to the equation \begin{document}$ \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -{\rm div}\, \mathcal{A}(x,\nabla u) = \sigma, \quad u\geq 0 \quad {\text{in }} \mathbb{R}^n, \\ {\liminf\limits_{|x|\rightarrow \infty}}\, u = 0, \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} $\end{document} where $ \sigma $ is a nonnegative locally finite measure in $ \mathbb{R}^n $, absolutely continuous with respect to the $ p $-capacity, and $ {\rm div}\, \mathcal{A}(x, \nabla u) $ is the $ \mathcal{A} $-Laplace operator, under standard growth and monotonicity assumptions of order $ p $ ($ 1 < p < \infty $) on $ \mathcal{A}(x, \xi) $ ($ x, \xi \in \mathbb{R}^n $); the model case $ \mathcal{A}(x, \xi) = \xi | \xi |^{p-2} $ corresponds to the $ p $-Laplace operator $ \Delta_p $ on $ \mathbb{R}^n $. Our main results establish uniqueness of solutions to a similar problem, \begin{document}$ \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -{\rm div}\, \mathcal{A}(x,\nabla u) = \sigma u^q +\mu, \quad u\geq 0 \quad {\text{in }} \mathbb{R}^n, \\ {\liminf\limits_{|x|\rightarrow \infty}}\, u = 0, \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} $\end{document} in the sub-natural growth case $ 0 < q < p-1 $, where $ \mu, \sigma $ are nonnegative locally finite measures in $ \mathbb{R}^n $, absolutely continuous with respect to the $ p $-capacity, and $ \mathcal{A}(x, \xi) $ satisfies an additional homogeneity condition, which holds in particular for the $ p $-Laplace operator.
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