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Bounded and unbounded solutions for a class of quasi-linear elliptic problems with a quadratic gradient term

Lucio BoccardoSergio Segura De LeónCristina Trombetti

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Bounded and unbounded solutionsQuasi-linear elliptic problemsDirichlet problemMathematics(all)Pure mathematicsApplied MathematicsGeneral MathematicsWeak solutionMathematical analysisQuadratic functionWeak formulationNonlinear systemElliptic curveQuadratic equationBounded functionQuadratic gradient termMathematics

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Abstract Our aim in this article is to study the following nonlinear elliptic Dirichlet problem: − div [a(x,u)·∇u]+b(x,u,∇u)=f, in Ω; u=0, on ∂Ω; where Ω is a bounded open subset of RN, with N>2, f∈L m (Ω) . Under wide conditions on functions a and b, we prove that there exists a type of solution for this problem; this is a bounded weak solution for m>N/2, and an unbounded entropy solution for N/2>m⩾2N/(N+2). Moreover, we show when this entropy solution is a weak one and when can be taken as test function in the weak formulation. We also study the summability of the solutions.

https://doi.org/10.1016/s0021-7824(01)01211-9