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Jefferson Abrantes Santos

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A nonsmooth variational approach to semipositone quasilinear problems in $\mathbb{R}^N$

This paper concerns the existence of a solution for the following class of semipositone quasilinear problems \begin{equation*} \left \{ \begin{array}{rclcl} -Δ_p u = h(x)(f(u)-a),\ & u > 0 & \mbox{in} & \mathbb{R}^N, \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} where $1 0$, $ f:[0,+\infty) \to [0,+\infty)$ is a function with subcritical growth and $f(0)=0$, while $h:\mathbb{R}^N \to (0,+\infty)$ is a continuous function that satisfies some technical conditions. We prove via nonsmooth critical points theory and comparison principle, that a solution exists for $a$ small enough. We also provide a version of Hopf's Lemma and a Liouville-type result for the $p$-Laplacian in the whole $\mathbb{R}^N$.

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Necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of Blow-up solutions for elliptic problems in Orlicz-Sobolev spaces

This paper is principally devoted to revisit the remarkable works of Keller and Osserman and generalize some previous results related to the those for the class of quasilinear elliptic problem $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} {\rm{div}} \left( ϕ(|\nabla u|)\nabla u\right) = a(x)f(u)\quad \mbox{in } Ω,\\ u\geq0\ \ \mbox{in}\ Ω,\ \ u=\infty\ \mbox{on}\ \partialΩ, \end{array} \right. $$ where either $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^N$ with $N \geq 1$ is a smooth bounded domain or $Ω= \mathbb{R}^N$. The function $ϕ$ includes special cases appearing in mathematical models in nonlinear elasticity, plasticity, generalized Newtonian fluids, and in quantum physics. The proofs are based on comparison principle, variational methods and topological arguments on the Orlicz-Sobolev spaces.

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