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Sturm comparison theorems for some elliptic type equations with damping and external forcing terms
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2015, Article number: 77 (2015)
Abstract
In this paper we establish Picone-type inequalities for a pair of a damped linear elliptic equation and a forced nonlinear elliptic equation with damped term and give some Sturm comparison theorems via the Picone-type inequality. An oscillation result is also given as an application.
1 Introduction
The existence and location of the zeros of the solutions of differential equations are very important. Accordingly a large literature on this subject has arisen during the past century.
After Sturm’s significant work [1] in 1836, Sturmian comparison theorems have been derived for differential equations of various types. In order to obtain Sturmian comparison theorems for ordinary differential equations of second order, Picone [2] established an identity, known as the Picone identity. In the latter years, Jaroš and Kusano [3] derived a Picone-type identity for half-linear differential equations of second order. They also developed Sturmian theory for both forced and unforced half-linear equations based on this identity [4, 5].
The Sturm-Picone theorem and much of the related theory should allow generalization to certain partial differential equations. There are many papers (or books) dealing with Sturm comparison (or oscillation results) for a pair of elliptic type operators. We refer to Kreith [6, 7], Swanson [8] for Sturmian comparison theorems for linear elliptic equations and to Allegretto [9], Allegretto and Huang [10, 11], Bognár and Dosly [12], Dunninger [13], Kusano et al. [14], Yoshida [15–17] for Picone identities, Sturmian comparison and/or oscillation theorems for half-linear elliptic equations. In particular, we mention the paper [13] by Dunninger which seems to be the first paper dealing with Sturmian comparison theorems for half-linear elliptic equations. Note that most of the work in the literature deal with the Sturm comparison results for elliptic equations that contain undamped terms for example see [6–13, 15, 17–20] and damped terms [21–23]. The forced differential equations and their oscillations has recently become more interesting research areas. Yoshida established results dealing with the forced oscillations of solutions of second order elliptic equations [17, 24].
We consider a damped linear elliptic operator
with forced nonlinear elliptic operator with a damped term of the form
where \(|\cdot|\) denotes the Euclidean length, ⋅ denotes the scalar product. It is assumed that \(0<\gamma_{j}<\alpha<\beta_{i}\) (\(i=1,2,\ldots, \ell\); \(j=1,2,\ldots,m\)).
Although there are plenty of results related to Sturm comparison (or oscillation results) of linear equations, there are only a few results dealing with nonlinear equations [21, 25]. By investigating the behavior of solutions of linear equations, we can establish considerable results for the behavior of solutions of nonlinear equations. Motivated by this idea, we give some Sturm comparison theorems via Picone-type inequalities for \(\ell(u)=0\) and \(P_{\alpha}(v)=f(x)\). To the best of our knowledge, the above damped elliptic operators ℓ and \(P_{\alpha}\) have not been studied.
Note that the principal part of (1.2) are reduced to the p-Laplacian \(\nabla\cdot(|\nabla u)|^{p-2} \nabla u\) (\(p=\alpha+1\)). We know that a variety of physical phenomena are modeled by equations the p-Laplacian [26–31]. We refer the reader to Diaz [32] for detailed references on physical background of the p-Laplacian.
We organize this paper as follows: In Section 2, we establish Picone-type inequalities for a pair of \(\{ \ell, P_{\alpha} \}\). In Section 3 we present Sturmian comparison theorems and Section 4 is left for an application.
2 Picone-type inequalities
In this section, we establish Picone-type inequalities for a pair of differential equations \(\ell(u)=0\) and \(P_{\alpha}(v)=f(x)\) defined by (1.1) and (1.2), respectively. Let G be a bounded domain in \(R^{n}\) with piecewise smooth boundary ∂G. We assume that \(a(x)\in C(\bar{G},R^{+})\), \(A(x)\in C(\bar{G},R^{+})\), \(b(x)\in C(\bar{G},R^{n})\), \(B(x)\in C(\bar{G},R^{n})\), \(c(x)\in C(\bar{G},R)\), \(C(x)\in C(\bar{G},R)\), \(D_{i}(x) \in C(\bar{G},R^{+} \cup\{0\})\), \(E_{j}(x) \in C(\bar{G},R^{+}\cup\{0\})\) (\(i=1,2,\ldots,\ell\); \(j=1,2,\ldots,m\)) and \(f(x)\in C(\bar{G},R)\).
The domain \(D_{\ell}(G)\) of ℓ is defined to be set of all functions u of class \(C^{1}(\bar{G},R)\) with the property that \(a(x)\nabla u \in C^{1}(\bar{G},R^{n})\cap C(\bar{G},R^{n})\). The domain \(D_{P_{\alpha}}(G)\) of \(P_{\alpha}\) is defined to be the set of all functions v with the property that \(A(x)|\nabla v|^{\alpha-1}\nabla v \in C^{1}(\bar{G},R^{n})\cap C(\bar{G},R^{n})\).
Let \(N=\min\{\ell, m\}\) and
We need the following lemma in order to give the proof of our results.
Lemma 2.1
The inequality
is valid for any \(\xi\in R^{n}\) and \(\eta\in R^{n}\), where the equality holds if and only if \(\xi=\eta\).
For the proof of the lemma see [12], Lemma 2.1.
Theorem 2.1
If \(u \in D_{\ell}(G)\) of \(\ell(u)=0\), \(v \in D_{P_{\alpha}}(G)\), and \(v\neq0\) in G and \(vf(x)\leq0\) in G, then for any \(u \in C^{1}(G,R)\) the following Picone-type inequality holds:
Here \(\varphi(s)= |s|^{\alpha-1}{s}\), \(s \in R\), \(\Phi(\xi)= |\xi|^{\alpha-1}{\xi}\), \(\xi\in R^{n}\), and
Proof
We easily see that
and using Young’s inequality we have
Using (2.2) and (2.3), we obtain the following inequality:
On the other hand we observe that the following identity holds:
and it is clear that
It can be shown that by using \(vf(x)\leq0\) and Young’s inequality
This implies
Combining (2.4), (2.5), and (2.6) we get the desired inequality (2.1). □
Theorem 2.2
If \(v \in D_{P_{\alpha}}(G)\) of \(\ell(u)=0\), \(v\neq0\) in G, and \(vf(x)\leq0\) in G, then for any \(u \in C^{1}(G,R)\) the following Picone-type inequality holds:
where \(\varphi(s)= |s|^{\alpha-1}{s}\), \(s \in R\), \(\Phi(\xi)= |\xi|^{\alpha-1}{\xi}\), \(\xi\in R^{n}\), and \(C_{1}(x)\) is defined as in Theorem 2.1.
Proof
Combining (2.5) with (2.6) yields the desired inequality (2.7). □
By using the ideas in [33], the condition on \(f(x)\) can be removed if we impose another condition on v, as \(|v|\geq k_{0}\). The proofs of the following theorems are similar to the proofs of Theorems 2.1 and 2.2 and the proof of the Lemma 1 in [33], hence omitted.
Theorem 2.3
If \(u \in D_{\ell}(G)\) of \(\ell(u)=0\), \(v \in D_{P_{\alpha}}(G)\), and \(|v|\geq k_{0}\) then the following Picone-type inequality holds for any \(u \in C^{1}(G,R)\):
where \(\varphi(s)= |s|^{\alpha-1}{s}\), \(s \in R\), \(\Phi(\xi)= |\xi|^{\alpha-1}{\xi}\), \(\xi\in R^{n}\), and
where
Theorem 2.4
If \(v \in D_{P_{\alpha}}(G)\) and \(|v|\geq k_{0}\) then the following Picone-type inequality holds for any \(u \in C^{1}(G,R)\):
where \(\varphi(s)= |s|^{\alpha-1}{s}\), \(s \in R\), \(\Phi(\xi)= |\xi|^{\alpha-1}{\xi}\), \(\xi\in R^{n}\), and \(C_{2}(x)\) is defined before in Theorem 2.3.
3 Sturmian comparison theorems
In this section we establish some Sturmian comparison results on the basis of the Picone-type inequalities obtained in Section 2. We begin with a theorem needed for comparison results.
Theorem 3.1
If there is a nontrivial function \(u \in C^{1}(\bar{G}, R)\) such that \(u=0\) on ∂G and
then every solution \(v \in D_{P_{\alpha}}(G)\) of \(P_{\alpha}(v)=f(x)\) satisfying \(vf(x)\leq0\) in G vanishes at some point of \(\bar{G}\). Furthermore, if \(\partial G \in C^{1}\), then every solution \(v \in D_{P_{\alpha}}(G)\) of \(P_{\alpha}(v)=f(x)\) satisfying \(vf(x)\leq0\) in G has one of the following properties:
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(1)
v has a zero in G,
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(2)
\(u=c_{0}e^{\alpha(x)}v\), where \(c_{0}\neq0\) is a constant and \(\nabla\alpha(x)=\frac{B(x)}{A(x)}\).
Proof
(The first statement) Suppose to the contrary that there exists a solution \(v \in D_{P_{\alpha}}(G)\) of \(P_{\alpha}(v)=f(x)\) satisfying \(vf(x)\leq0\) in G and \(v\neq0\) on \(\bar{G}\). Then the inequality (2.7) of Theorem 2.2 holds. Integrating (2.7) over G and then using the divergence theorem, we get
Since \(u=0\) on ∂G and \(v\neq0\) on \(\bar{G}\), we observe that u cannot be written in the form \(u=c_{0}e^{\alpha(x)}v\), and hence \(\nabla (\frac{u}{v} )-\frac{B(x)}{A(x)}\frac{u}{v}\neq0\). Therefore from Lemma 2.1 we see that
which together with (3.2) implies that \(M[u]>0\). This contradicts the hypothesis \(M[u]\leq0\). The proof of the first statement (1) is complete.
(The second statement) Next we consider the case where \(\partial G \in C^{1}\). Let \(v \in D_{P_{\alpha}}(G)\) be a solution of \(P_{\alpha}(v)=f(x)\) satisfying \(vf(x)\leq0\) in G and \(v\neq 0\) on G. Since \(\partial G \in C^{1}\), \(u\in C^{1}(\bar{G}, R)\) and \(u=0\) on ∂G, we find that u belongs to the Sobolev space \(W^{1,\alpha+1}_{0}(G)\), which is the closure in the norm
of the class \(C^{\infty}_{0}(G)\) of infinitely differentiable functions with compact supports in G, [34, 35]. Let \({u_{k}}\) be a sequence of functions in \(C^{\infty}_{0}(G)\) converging to u in the norm (3.3). Integrating (2.7) with \(u=u_{k}\) over G and then applying the divergence theorem, we observe that
We first claim that \(\lim_{k \to\infty} M[u_{k}]=M[u]=0\). Since \(A(x)\), \(C(x)\), \(D_{i}(x)\) (\(i=1,2,\ldots,\ell\)), and \(f(x)\) are bounded on \(\bar{G}\), there exists a constant \(K_{1}>0\) such that
It is easy to see that
It follows from the mean value theorem that
Since also \(B(x)\) is bounded on \(\bar{G}\), then there is a constant \(K_{2}\) such that \(\frac{|B(x)|}{A(x)}\leq K_{2}\) on \(\bar{G}\). Let us take \(K_{3}=\max\{1, K_{2}\}\). From the above inequality we have
Using (3.6) and applying Hölder’s inequality and then Minkowski’s inequality, we get
Similarly we obtain
Combining (3.5), (3.7), and (3.8), we have
for some positive constant \(K_{4}\) depending only on \(K_{1}\), \(K_{2}\), \(K_{3}\), and α, from which it follows that \(\lim_{k \to\infty} M[u_{k}]=M[u]\). We see from (3.4) that \(M[u]\geq0\), which together with (3.2) implies \(M[u]= 0\).
Let ℬ be an arbitrary ball with \(\bar{\mathcal{B}} \subset G\) and define
for \(w \in C^{1}(G; R)\). It is easily verified that
where \(Q_{G}[u_{k}]\) denotes the right-hand side of (3.4) with \(w=u_{k}\) and with ℬ replaced by G.
A simple calculation yields
where \(q=\frac{\alpha+1}{\alpha}\), the constants \(K_{5}\), \(K_{6}\), and \(K_{7}\) are independent of k, and the subscript ℬ indicates the integrals involved in the norm (3.3) are to be taken over ℬ instead of G. It is well known that the Nemitski operator \(\varphi:L^{\alpha+1}{(G)}\rightarrow L^{q}{(G)}\) is continuous [36] and it is clear that \(\|u_{k}-u\|_{\mathcal{B}}\rightarrow0\) as \(\|u_{k}-u\|_{G}\rightarrow0\).
Therefore, letting \(k\rightarrow\infty\) in (3.11), we find that \(Q_{\mathcal{B}}(u)=0\). Since \(A(x)>0\) in ℬ, it follows that
From this, Lemma 2.1 implies that
Hence we observe that \(\frac{u}{v}=c_{0}e^{\alpha(x)}\) in ℬ for some constant \(c_{0}\) and some continuous function \(\alpha(x)\). Since ℬ an arbitrary ball with \(\bar{\mathcal{B}}\subset G\), we conclude that \(\frac{u}{v}=c_{0}e^{\alpha(x)}\) in G where \(c_{0}\neq0\). □
Corollary 3.1
Assume that \(f(x)\geq0\) (or \(f(x)\leq0\)) in G. If there is a nontrivial function \(u \in C^{1}(G,R)\) such that \(u=0\) on ∂G and \(M[u]\leq0\), then \(P_{\alpha}(v)=f(x)\) has no negative (or positive) solution on \(\bar{G}\).
Proof
Suppose that \(P_{\alpha}(v)=f(x)\) has a negative (or positive) solution v on \(\bar{G}\). It is easy to see that \(vf(x)\leq0\) in G, and therefore it follows from Theorem 3.1 that v must vanish at some point of \(\bar{G}\). This is a contradiction and the proof is complete. □
Theorem 3.2
(Sturmian comparison theorem)
If there is a nontrivial solution \(u \in D_{\ell}(G)\) of \(\ell(u)=0\) such that \(u=0\) on ∂G and
Then every solution \(v\in D_{P_{\alpha}}(G)\) of \(P_{\alpha}(v)=f(x)\) satisfying \(vf(x)\leq0\) in G must vanish at some point of \(\bar{G}\). Furthermore, if \(\partial G \in C^{1}\), then every solution \(v\in D_{P_{\alpha}}(G)\) of \(P_{\alpha}(v)=f(x)\) satisfying \(vf(x)\leq0\) in G has one of the following properties:
-
(1)
v has a zero in G,
-
(2)
\(u=c_{0}e^{\alpha(x)}v\), where \(c_{0}\neq0\) is a constant and \(\nabla\alpha(x)=\frac{B(x)}{A(x)}\).
Proof
The theorem can be proof via the inequality (2.1) by applying the same argument as that use in the proof of Theorem 3.1. But here we will give an alternative proof. By using the definition of \(M[u]\) and \(V[u]\), we have the following:
For the last integral over G, considering the integral of the inequality (2.4) by using the divergence theorem and in view of (3.13) implies that \(M[u]\leq0\). Then the conclusion of the theorem follows from Theorem 3.1. □
Since the hypothesis \(V[u]\geq0\) contains the nontrivial solution u of \(\ell(u)=0\), Theorem 3.2 is not efficient enough. But when we take \(\alpha=1\) and \(B(x)\equiv0\) in \(P_{\alpha}(v)=f(x)\), that is,
where \(\beta_{i}\), \(\gamma_{j}\) are real positive constants such that \(\gamma_{j}<1<\beta_{i}\) (\(i=1,2,\ldots,\ell\); \(j=1,2,\ldots,m\)), we observe some interesting results for the pair of \(\ell(u)=0\) and \(P_{1}(v)=f(x)\). Now, we will consider the equations \(\ell(u)=0\) and \(P_{1}(v)=f(x)\).
Corollary 3.2
If \(u \in D_{\ell}(G)\) of \(\ell(u)=0\), \(v \in D_{P_{1}}(G)\), and \(v\neq0\) in G and \(vf(x)\leq0\) in G, then for any \(u \in C^{1}(G,R)\) the following Picone-type inequality holds:
where \(\beta_{i}\), \(\gamma_{j}\) are real positive constants such that \(\gamma_{j}<1<\beta_{i}\) (\(i=1,2,\ldots,\ell\); \(j=1,2,\ldots,m\)).
Corollary 3.3
If there is a nontrivial function \(u \in C^{1}(\bar{G}, R)\) such that \(u=0\) on ∂G and
then every solution \(v \in D_{P_{1}}(G)\) of (3.14) satisfying \(vf(x)\leq0\) in G vanishes at some point of \(\bar{G}\). Furthermore, if \(\partial G \in C^{1}\), then every solution \(v \in D_{P_{1}}(G)\) of (3.14) satisfying \(vf(x)\leq 0\) in G has one of the following properties:
-
(1)
v has a zero in G,
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(2)
\(u=c_{0}v\), where \(c_{0}\neq0\) is a constant.
The proof can be given by using the same process as in the proof of Theorem 3.1.
Theorem 3.3
If there is a nontrivial solution \(u \in D_{\ell}(G)\) of \(\ell(u)=0\) such that \(u=0\) on ∂G and
Then every solution \(v \in D_{P_{1}}(G)\) of (3.14) satisfying \(vf(x)\leq0\) in G must vanish at some point of \(\bar{G}\).
Proof
Suppose that, contrary to our claim, there exists a solution \(v \in D_{P_{1}}(G)\) of (3.14) satisfying \(vf(x)\leq0\) and \(v\neq 0\) on \(\bar{G}\). We integrate (3.15) over G and then apply the divergence theorem to obtain
and therefore
that is, \(u/v=c_{0}\) on \(\bar{G}\) for some constant \(c_{0}\). Since \(u=0\) on ∂G we see that \(c_{0}=0\), which contradicts the fact that u is nontrivial. The proof is complete. □
Corollary 3.4
Assume that
and
in G. If there exists a nontrivial solution \(u \in D_{\ell}(G)\) of \(\ell(u)=0\) such that \(u=0\) on ∂G, then every solution \(v \in D_{P_{1}}(G)\) of (3.14) satisfying \(vf(x)\leq0\) must vanish at some point of \(\bar{G}\).
In the special case \(b(x)\equiv0\) and \(f(x)\equiv0\) we consider the following equations:
and
For (3.20) and (3.21) the following corollary can be given as a result of a special case of Theorem 3.3.
Corollary 3.5
Assume that
and
If there is a nontrivial solution u of (3.20) such that \(u=0\) on ∂G, then every solution v of (3.21) must vanish at some point of \(\bar{G}\).
Note that when we take \(\alpha=1\) and \(b(x)\equiv B(x)\equiv0\), we obtain interesting results for the considered the pair of linear and nonlinear equations, that is, our results are reduced to the well-known results in the literature. For example, if we omit the damped terms, that is, \(b(x)\equiv B(x)\equiv0\) and if we substitute \(C(x)\equiv0\), \(D_{1}(x)\equiv C(x)\), \(\beta_{1}=\beta\), \(E_{1}(x)\equiv D(x)\), \(\gamma_{1}=\gamma\), and \(D_{i}(x)\equiv E_{j}(x)\equiv0\) (\(i=2,3,\ldots,\ell\); \(j=2,3,\ldots,m\)), then it is seen that our results are reduced to the results which are given in [25] in the case \(a_{ij}(x)\equiv a(x)\) and \(A_{ij}(x)\equiv A(x)\). In special cases these results are also reduced to the results in [23, 37].
Theorem 3.4
Suppose that G is divided into two subdomains \(G_{1}\) and \(G_{2}\) by \((n-1)\)-dimensional piecewise smooth hypersurface in such a way that
If there are nontrivial functions \(u_{k} \in C^{1}(\bar{G_{k}}, R)\) such that \(u_{k}=0\) on \(\partial G_{k}\) and
then every solution \(v \in D_{P_{1}}(G)\) of (3.14) has a zero on \(\bar{G}\).
Proof
Suppose that (3.14) has a solution \(v \in D_{P_{1}}(G)\) with no zero on \(\bar{G}\). Then either \(v<0\) on \(\bar{G}\) or \(v>0\) on \(\bar{G}\). If \(v<0\) on \(\bar{G}\), then \(v<0\) on \(\bar{G_{1}}\), so that \(vf(x)\leq0\) in \(\bar{G_{1}}\). Using Corollary 3.1, we see that no solution of (3.14) can be negative on \(\bar{G_{1}}\). This contradiction shows that it is impossible that \(v<0\) on \(\bar{G}\). In the case where \(v>0\) on \(\bar{G}\), a similar argument leads us to a contradiction and the proof is complete. □
In [33], Yoshida also studied a similar problem. Inspired by his results we establish the following theorems by using Picone-type inequalities given in Theorems 2.3 and 2.4. Since the proofs of the theorems can be given by similar lines of thought to the proofs of Theorems 3.1 and 3.2 and the proof of Theorem 1 in [33], the proofs are omitted.
Theorem 3.5
Let \(k_{0}>0\) be a constant. Assume that there exists a nontrivial function \(u \in C^{1}(\bar{G}; R)\) such that \(u=0\) on ∂G and
Then for every solution \(v \in D_{P_{\alpha}(G)}\) of (2.9), either v has a zero on \(\bar{G}\) or \(|v(x_{0})|< k_{0}\) for some \(x_{0} \in G\).
Theorem 3.6
If there is a nontrivial solution \(u \in D_{\ell}(G)\) of \(\ell(u)=0\) such that \(u=0\) on ∂G and
Then every solution \(v\in D_{P_{\alpha}}(G)\) of \(P_{\alpha}(v)=f(x)\) in G must vanish at some point of \(\bar{G}\) or \(|v(x_{0})|< k_{0}\) for \(x_{0} \in G\).
Here we point out that, when we compare Theorems 3.5 and 3.6 with Theorems 3.1 and 3.2, respectively, we see that the condition on \(f(x)\) is removed, but, while Theorems 3.5 and 3.6 cannot guarantee a zero in \(\bar{G}\), Theorems 3.1 and 3.2 guarantee a zero in \(\bar{G}\).
4 An application
Let Ω be an exterior domain in \(R^{n}\), that is, \(\Omega \supset\{ x\in R: |x|\geq r_{0} \}\) for some \(r_{0}>0\). We consider the following equations:
and
where the operators ℓ and \(P_{1}\) are defined before \(a,A \in C(\Omega,R^{+})\), \(b,B \in C(\Omega,R^{n})\), \(c,C \in C(\Omega, R)\), \(D_{i}, E_{j} \in C(\Omega,R^{+}\cup \{0\})\) (\(i=1,2,\ldots,\ell\); \(j=1,2,\ldots,m\)) and \(f \in C(\Omega, R)\), \(\beta_{i}\), \(\gamma_{j}\) are real positive constants such that \(\gamma_{j}<1<\beta_{i}\).
The domain \(D_{\ell}(\Omega)\) of ℓ is defined to be set of all functions u of class \(C^{1}(\Omega, R)\) with the property that \(a(x)\nabla u \in C^{1}(\Omega, R^{n})\). The domain \(D_{P_{1}}(\Omega)\)of is defined similarly. A solution of (4.1) (or (4.2)) is said to be the oscillatory in Ω if it has a zero in \(\Omega_{r}\) for any \(r>0\), where
Now we will give an oscillation result for (4.2) in an exterior domain Ω in \(R^{n}\) which contains \(\{x \in R^{n}: |x|\geq r_{0} \}\) for some \(r_{0}>0\).
Theorem 4.1
Assume that for any \(r>0\) there exists a bounded domain G in \(\Omega_{r}\) with piecewise smooth boundary which can be divided into subdomains \(G_{1}\) and \(G_{2}\) by an \((n-1)\)-dimensional hypersurface in such a way that \(f(x)\geq0\) in \(G_{1}\) and \(f(x)\leq0\) in \(G_{2}\). Assume furthermore that \(D_{i}(x)\geq0\) (\(i=1,2,\ldots,\ell\)) and \(E_{j}(x)\geq0\) (\(j=1,2,\ldots,m\)) in G and that there are nontrivial functions \(u_{k} \in C^{1}(\bar{G_{k}}, R)\) such that \(u_{k}=0\) on \(\partial G_{k}\) and \(M_{G_{k}}[u_{k}]\leq0\) (\(k=1, 2\)) where \(M_{G_{k}}\) are defined by (3.23). Then every solution \(v \in D_{P_{1}}(\Omega)\) of (4.2) is oscillatory in Ω.
Proof
We need to apply Theorem 3.4 to make sure that v has a zero in any domain \(\bar{G}\subset\Omega_{r}\) as mentioned in the hypotheses of Theorem 4.1. For any \(r>0\), there exists a bounded domain G as defined in Theorem 4.1. this leads v is oscillatory in Ω. □
Example
Let consider the forced elliptic equation:
where β, \(K_{1}\), and \(K_{2}\) are constants such that \(\beta>1\), \(K_{1}\geq0\), and \(K_{2}\geq0\), but they are not equal zero at the same time, and Ω is unbounded domain in \(R^{2}\) containing a horizontal strip such that
Here \(\ell=2\), \(\beta_{1}=\beta\), \(\beta_{2}=2\beta\), \(A(x)\equiv1\), \(C(x)\equiv0\), \(D_{1}(x)=K_{1}(\sin x_{1} \sin x_{2})\), \(D_{2}(x)=K_{2}(\sin x_{1} \sin x_{2})\), \(D_{i}\equiv0\) (\(i=3,4,\ldots,\ell\)), \(E_{j}(x)\equiv0\) (\(j=1,2,\ldots,m\)) and \(f(x)=\cos x_{1}\sin x_{2}\). For any fixed j, we consider the rectangle
which is divided into two subdomains,
by the vertical line \(x_{1}=(2j+(1/2))\pi\). It is easy to see that \(f(x)\geq0\) in \(G_{1}^{j}\) and \(f(x)\leq0\) in \(G_{2}^{j}\). Let \(u_{k}=\sin 2x_{1} \sin x_{2}\) (\(k=1,2\)), \(u_{k}=0\) on \(\partial G_{k}\), and by simple calculations we have
where \(B(s,t)\) is the beta function. If \(K_{1}\) and \(K_{2}\) are chosen satisfying the following condition:
then \(M_{G_{k}^{j}}[u_{k}]\leq0\) holds for \(k=1,2\) and for any fixed \(j \in N\). Therefore, Theorem 4.1 implies that every solution v of (4.3) is oscillatory in Ω for all sufficiently large β, \(K_{1}\), and \(K_{2}\). For example, if we choose \(\beta=2\), \(K_{1}=1\), and \(K_{2}=95\), then the above inequality holds.
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Şahiner, S., Mısırlı, E. & Tiryaki, A. Sturm comparison theorems for some elliptic type equations with damping and external forcing terms. J Inequal Appl 2015, 77 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13660-015-0594-7
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- 35B05
Keywords
- Picone’s inequality
- half-linear equations
- elliptic equations
- Sobolev space
- oscillation criteria