Positive solutions to semipositone problems on Heisenberg group

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Main Authors: Naik, Vikram, Kumar, Rohit
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author Naik, Vikram
Kumar, Rohit
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Kumar, Rohit
contents This article focuses on establishing a positive weak solution to a class of semipositone problems over the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^N$. In particular, we are interested in the positive weak solution to the following problem: \begin{equation}\label{p1} -Δ_{\mathbb{H}}u= g(ξ)f_a(u) \text{ in } \mathbb{H}^N \tag{$P_a$}, \end{equation} where $a>0$ is a real parameter and $g$ is a positive function. The function $f_a: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is continuous and of semipositone type which means it becomes negative on some parts of the domain. Due to this sign-changing nonlinearity, we can not directly apply the maximum principle to obtain the positivity of the solution to \eqref{p1}. For that purpose, we need some regularity results for our solutions. In this direction, we first prove the existence of weak solutions to \eqref{p1} via the mountain pass technique. Further, we establish some regularity properties of our solutions and using that we prove the $L^\infty$-norm convergence of the sequence of solutions $\{u_a\}$ to a positive function $u$ as $a \rightarrow 0$, which yields $u_a \geq 0$ for $a$ sufficiently small. Finally, we use the Riesz-representation formula to obtain the positivity of solutions under some extra hypothesis on $f_0$ and $g$. To the best of our knowledge, there is no article dealing with semipositone problems in Heisenberg group set up.
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spellingShingle Positive solutions to semipositone problems on Heisenberg group
Naik, Vikram
Kumar, Rohit
Analysis of PDEs
35D30, 35A15, 35B65, 35B09
This article focuses on establishing a positive weak solution to a class of semipositone problems over the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^N$. In particular, we are interested in the positive weak solution to the following problem: \begin{equation}\label{p1} -Δ_{\mathbb{H}}u= g(ξ)f_a(u) \text{ in } \mathbb{H}^N \tag{$P_a$}, \end{equation} where $a>0$ is a real parameter and $g$ is a positive function. The function $f_a: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is continuous and of semipositone type which means it becomes negative on some parts of the domain. Due to this sign-changing nonlinearity, we can not directly apply the maximum principle to obtain the positivity of the solution to \eqref{p1}. For that purpose, we need some regularity results for our solutions. In this direction, we first prove the existence of weak solutions to \eqref{p1} via the mountain pass technique. Further, we establish some regularity properties of our solutions and using that we prove the $L^\infty$-norm convergence of the sequence of solutions $\{u_a\}$ to a positive function $u$ as $a \rightarrow 0$, which yields $u_a \geq 0$ for $a$ sufficiently small. Finally, we use the Riesz-representation formula to obtain the positivity of solutions under some extra hypothesis on $f_0$ and $g$. To the best of our knowledge, there is no article dealing with semipositone problems in Heisenberg group set up.
title Positive solutions to semipositone problems on Heisenberg group
topic Analysis of PDEs
35D30, 35A15, 35B65, 35B09
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08104