A Liouville comparison principle for semilinear elliptic second-order inequalities

Abstract

We consider semilinear elliptic second-order partial differential inequalities of the form (*) in the whole space , where , q>0 and L is a linear elliptic second-order partial differential operator in divergence form. We assume that the coefficients of the operator L are measurable and locally bounded such that the quadratic form associated with the operator L is symmetric and non-negative definite. We obtain a Liouville comparison principle in terms of capacities associated with the operator L for solutions of (*) which are measurable and belong locally in to a Sobolev-type function space also associated with the operator L.