Beyond the classical strong maximum principle: forcing changing sign near the boundary and flat solutions

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Auteurs principaux: Díaz, Jesús Ildefonso, Hernández, Jesús
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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