Special Session 113: New Achievements in Nonlinear PDEs and Applications

Positive and nodal solutions for a quasi-linear equation depending on the gradient

Francesca Faraci
University of Catania
Italy
Co-Author(s):    D. Motreanu, D.Puglisi
Abstract:
In this talk we deal with a quasi-linear elliptic equation depending on a sublinear nonlinearity involving the gradient. Our aim is to combine variational techniques with fixed point theory in order to prove the existence of a positive solution.We prove also the existence of a nontrivial nodal solution employing the theory of invariant sets of descending flow together with sub-supersolution techniques, gradient regularity arguments, strong comparison principle for the p-Laplace operator. Based on the papers F. Faraci, D.Motreanu, D. Puglisi, Quasi-linear elliptic equations with dependence on the gradient, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations (2015) and F. Faraci, D. Puglisi, Nodal solutions of p-Laplacian equations depending on the gradient, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh A (2024).