We prove the existence of the least positive eigenvalue with a corresponding nonnegative eigenfunction of the quasilinear eigenvalue problem $$\begin{array}{ccc}\hfill -div\left(a(x,u)\right|{|}^{p-2}\nabla u)=& {\lambda b(x,u)\left|u\right|}^{p-2}u\text{in}\Omega ,u=\hfill & \hfill 0\text{on}\partial \Omega ,\end{array}$$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain, $p>1$ is a real number and $a(x,u)$, $b(x,u)$ satisfy appropriate growth conditions. Moreover, the coefficient $a(x,u)$ contains a degeneration or a singularity. We work in a suitable weighted Sobolev space and prove the boundedness of the eigenfunction in $L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$. The main tool is the investigation of the associated homogeneous eigenvalue problem...

Fundamental results concerning Stieltjes integrals for functions with values in Banach spaces have been presented in []. The background of the theory is the Kurzweil approach to integration, based on Riemann type integral sums (see e.g. []). It is known that the Kurzweil theory leads to the (non-absolutely convergent) Perron-Stieltjes integral in the finite dimensional case. Here basic results concerning equations of the form x(t) = x(a) +at [A(s)]x(s) +f(t) - f(a) are presented on the...

n this paper we investigate systems of linear integral equations in the space ${𝔾}_L^n$ of $n$-vector valued functions which are regulated on the closed interval $[0,1]$ (i.e. such that can have only discontinuities of the first kind in $[0,1]$) and left-continuous in the corresponding open interval $(0,1).$ In particular, we are interested in systems of the form x(t) - A(t)x(0) - 01B(t,s)[d x(s)] = f(t), where $f\in {𝔾}_L^n$, the columns of the $n\times n$-matrix valued function $A$ belong to ${𝔾}_L^n$, the entries of $B(t,.)$ have a bounded variation...

The paper is devoted to the estimate u(x,k)Kk{capp,w(F)pw(B(x,))} 1p-1, $2p<n$ for a solution of a degenerate nonlinear elliptic equation in a domain $B(x_0,1)\setminus F$, $F\subset B(x_0,d)=\{x\in {ℝ}^n|x_0-x|<d\}$, $d<\frac{1}{2}$, under the boundary-value conditions $u(x,k)=k$ for $x\in \partial F$, $u(x,k)=0$ for $x\in \partial B(x_0,1)$ and where $0<\rho \le dist(x,F)$, $w\left(x\right)$ is a weighted function from some Muckenhoupt class, and $ca{p}_{p,w}\left(F\right)$, $w\left(B\right(x,\rho \left)\right)$ are weighted capacity and measure of the corresponding sets.