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PDE Seminar Abstracts

Local behaviour of singular solutions for nonlinear elliptic equations in divergence form

Florica Cîrstea
University of Sydney
17 September 2012, 2-3pm, Carslaw Room 829 (AGR)

Abstract

A complete classification of the behaviour near zero of all non-negative solutions of -Δu+uq=0 in the punctured unit ball B1(0)\{0} in RN (N3) is due to Veron (1981) for 1<q<N(N-2), and Brezis-Veron (1980/81) for qN(N-2). In this talk, we extend these results to nonlinear elliptic equations in divergence form -(A(|x|)u)+uq=0 with q>1. Here, A denotes a positive C1(0,1] function which is regularly varying at zero with index in (2-N,2). We show that zero is a removable singularity for all positive solutions if and only if ΦLq(B1(0)), where Φ denotes the fundamental solution of -(A(|x|)u)=δ0 in the sense of distributions on B1(0), and δ0 is the Dirac mass at 0. We also completely classify the isolated singularities in the more delicate case that ΦLq(B1(0)). This is joint work with B. Brandolini, F. Chiacchio and C. Trombetti.