Existence of Solutions for Some Quasilinear Degenerate Elliptic Inclusions in Weighted Sobolev Spaces

Abstract

ABSTRACTWe consider the Dirichlet problem for a class of quasilinear degenerate elliptic inclusions of the form −div(𝒜(x, u, ∇u)) + f(x)g(u) ∈ H(x, u, ∇u), where 𝒜(x, u, ∇u) is allowed to be degenerate. Without the general assumption that the multivalued nonlinearity is characterized by Clarke's generalized gradient of some locally Lipschitz functions, we prove the existence of bounded solutions in weighed Sobolev space with the superlinear growth imposed on the nonlinearity g and the multifunction H(x, u, ∇u) by using the Leray-Schauder fixed point theorem. Furthermore, we investigate the existence of extremal solutions and prove that they are dense in the solutions of the original system. Subsequently, a quasilinear degenerate elliptic control problem is considered and the existence theorem based on the proven results is obtained.