Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 7 (2002), Issue 8, Pages 423-452
doi:10.1155/S1085337502204030
Positive solutions of higher order quasilinear elliptic equations
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IMECC, Departamento de Matemática, Caixa Postal 6065, CEP 130813-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Received 25 February 2002
Copyright © 2002 Marcelo Montenegro. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The higher order quasilinear elliptic equation −Δ(Δp(Δu))=f(x,u) subject to Dirichlet boundary
conditions may have unique and regular positive solution. If the
domain is a ball, we obtain a priori estimate to the radial
solutions via blowup. Extensions to systems and general domains
are also presented. The basic ingredients are the maximum
principle, Moser iterative scheme, an eigenvalue problem, a
priori estimates by rescalings, sub/supersolutions, and
Krasnosel'skiĭ fixed point theorem.