Solvability of nonlinear Dirichlet problem for a class of degenerate elliptic equations.
We consider three types of semilinear second order PDEs on a cylindrical domain , where is a bounded domain in , . Among these, two are evolution problems of parabolic and hyperbolic types, in which the unbounded direction of is reserved for time , the third type is an elliptic equation with a singled out unbounded variable . We discuss the asymptotic behavior, as , of solutions which are defined and bounded on .
We prove existence of positive solutions for the equation on , arising in the prescribed scalar curvature problem. is the Laplace-Beltrami operator on , is the critical Sobolev exponent, and is a small parameter. The problem can be reduced to a finite dimensional study which is performed with Morse theory.
Some new oscillation criteria are obtained for second order elliptic differential equations with damping , x ∈ Ω, where Ω is an exterior domain in ℝⁿ. These criteria are different from most known ones in the sense that they are based on the information only on a sequence of subdomains of Ω ⊂ ℝⁿ, rather than on the whole exterior domain Ω. Our results are more natural in view of the Sturm Separation Theorem.