Minimal [formula omitted]-solutions to singular sublinear elliptic problems

Abstract

We solve the existence problem for the minimal positive solutions u∈Lp(Ω,dx) to the Dirichlet problems for sublinear elliptic equations of the form Lu=σuq+μinΩ,lim infx→yu(x)=0y∈∂∞Ω,where 0<q<1 and Lu≔−div(A(x)∇u) is a linear uniformly elliptic operator with bounded measurable coefficients. The coefficient σ and data μ are nonnegative Radon measures on an arbitrary domain Ω⊂Rn with a positive Green function associated with L. Our techniques are based on the use of sharp Green potential pointwise estimates, weighted norm inequalities, and norm estimates in terms of generalized energy.