Positive solutions of p-th Yamabe type equations on graphs

Abstract

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a finite connected weighted graph, and assume $1\leq\alpha\leq p\leq q$. In this paper, we consider the following $p$-th Yamabe type equation $$-\Delta_pu+hu^{q-1}=\lambda fu^{\alpha-1}.$$ on $G$, where $\Delta_p$ is the $p$-th discrete graph Laplacian, $h\leq0$ and $f>0$ are real functions defined on all vertices of $G$. Instead of the approach in [Ge3], we adopt a new approach, and prove that the above equation always has a positive solution $u>0$ for some constant $\lambda\in\mathbb{R}$. In particular, when $q=p$ our result generalizes the main theorem in [Ge3] from the case of $\alpha\geq p>1$ to the case of $1\leq\alpha\leq p$. It's interesting that our new approach can also work in the case of $\alpha\geq p>1$.