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| author | Díaz, Jesús Ildefonso Hernández, Jesús |
| author_facet | Díaz, Jesús Ildefonso Hernández, Jesús |
| contents | We show that the classical strong maximum principle, concerning positive supersolutions of linear elliptic equations vanishing on the boundary of the domain $Ω$ can be extended, under suitable conditions, to the case in which the forcing term $f(x)$ is changing sign. In addition, in the case of solutions, the normal derivative on the boundary may also vanish on the boundary (definition of flat solutions). This leads to examples in which the unique continuation property fails. As a first application, we show the existence of positive solutions for a sublinear semilinear elliptic problem of indefinite sign. A second application, concerning the positivity of solutions of the linear heat equation, for some large values of time, with forcing and/or initial datum changing sign is also given. |
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| spellingShingle | Beyond the classical strong maximum principle: forcing changing sign near the boundary and flat solutions Díaz, Jesús Ildefonso Hernández, Jesús Analysis of PDEs We show that the classical strong maximum principle, concerning positive supersolutions of linear elliptic equations vanishing on the boundary of the domain $Ω$ can be extended, under suitable conditions, to the case in which the forcing term $f(x)$ is changing sign. In addition, in the case of solutions, the normal derivative on the boundary may also vanish on the boundary (definition of flat solutions). This leads to examples in which the unique continuation property fails. As a first application, we show the existence of positive solutions for a sublinear semilinear elliptic problem of indefinite sign. A second application, concerning the positivity of solutions of the linear heat equation, for some large values of time, with forcing and/or initial datum changing sign is also given. |
| title | Beyond the classical strong maximum principle: forcing changing sign near the boundary and flat solutions |
| topic | Analysis of PDEs |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02626 |