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Zbl 0979.35049
Serrin, James; Tang, Moxun
Uniqueness of ground states for quasilinear elliptic equations.
(English)
[J] Indiana Univ. Math. J. 49, No.3, 897-923 (2000). ISSN 0022-2518

The authors give a condition for the uniqueness of ground states (nonnegative nontrivial $C^1$ distribution solution which tends to zero at $\infty$) of the quasilinear elliptic equation $$\text{div}(|Du|^{m-2}Du) =f(u)\quad \text{ in} {\Bbb R}^n,\quad n>m>1. \tag *$$ Precisely, $(*)$ admits at most one radial ground state if, for some $b>0,$ $f\in C(0,\infty),$ with $f(u)\leq 0$ on $(0,b]$ and $f(u)>0$ for $u>b;$ $f\in C^1(b,\infty),$ with $g(u)=uf'(u)/f(u)$ non-increasing on $(b,\infty).$ In addition, it is considered also uniqueness of radial solutions of the homogeneous Dirichlet-Neumann free boundary problem for the equation $(*)$ with $u>0$ in $B_R,$ $u=\partial u/\partial n=0$ on $\partial B_R,$ where $B_R$ is an open ball in ${\Bbb R}^n$ with radius $R>0.$
[Lubomira Softova (Bari)]
MSC 2000:
*35J60 Nonlinear elliptic equations
35B05 General behavior of solutions of PDE

Keywords: Dirichlet-Neumann problem; scalar field equation; distribution solution; radial solutions

Cited in: Zbl 1184.35144

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