THE FIRST BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM FOR A CLASS OF QUASILINEAR DEGENERATE ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS

In this paper, the first boundary value problem for quasilinear equation of the form △A（u,x）＋∑i=1^m δb^i（u,x）/δxi＋c（u,x）=0,Au（u,x） ≥0is studied. By using the compensated compactness theory, some results on the existence of weak solution are established. In addition, under certain condition the uniqueness of solution is proved.

HLDER ESTIMATES FOR A CLASS OF DEGENERATE ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS

In this paper we study the regularity theory of the solutions of a class of degenerate elliptic equations in divergence form. By introducing a proper distance and applying the compactness method we establish the HSlder type estimates for the weak solutions.

INFINITELY MANY SOLUTIONS FOR A CLASS OF DEGENERATE ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS

Let X = （X1, ···, Xm） be an infinitely degenerate system of vector fields. The aim of this paper is to study the existence of infinitely many solutions for the sum of operators X =sum （ ） form j=1 to m Xj Xj.

THE EXPONENTIAL PROPERTY OF SOLUTIONS BOUNDED FROM BELOW TO DEGENERATE EQUATIONS IN UNBOUNDED DOMAINS

This paper is focused on studying the structure of solutions bounded from below to degenerate elliptic equations with Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions in unbounded domains.After establishing the weak maximum principles,the global boundary Holder estimates and the boundary Harnack inequalities of the equations,we show that all solutions bounded from below are linear combinations of two special solutions(exponential growth at one end and exponential decay at the other)with a bounded solution to the degenerate equations.

Configurations of Shock Regular Reflection by Straight Wedges

We are concerned with the shock regular reflection configurations of unsteady global solutions for a plane shock hitting a symmetric straight wedge.It has been known that patterns of the shock reflection are various and complicated,including the regular and the Mach reflection.Most of the fundamental issues for the shock reflection have not been understood.Recently,there are great progress on the mathematical theory of the shock regular reflection problem,especially for the global existence,uniqueness,and structural stability of solutions.In this paper,we show that there are two more possible configurations of the shock regular reflection besides known four configurations.We also give a brief proof of the global existence of solutions.

Multiplicity of solutions for the semilinear subelliptic Dirichlet problem

In this paper,we study the semilinear subelliptic equation{−△Xu=f(x,u)+g(x,u)inΩ,u=0 on∂Ω,where△X=−∑m i=1 Xi∗Xi is the self-adjoint Hormander operator associated with the vector fields X=(X_(1),X_(2),...,X_(m))satisfying the Hormander's condition,f(x,u)∈C(Ω×R),g(x,u)is a Carathéodory function onΩ×R,andΩis an open bounded domain in R~n with smooth boundary.Combining the perturbation from the symmetry method with the approaches involving the eigenvalue estimate and the Morse index in estimating the minimax values,we obtain two kinds of existence results for multiple weak solutions to the problem above.Furthermore,we discuss the difference between the eigenvalue estimate approach and the Morse index approach in degenerate situations.Compared with the classical elliptic cases,both approaches here have their own strengths in the degenerate cases.This new phenomenon implies that the results in general degenerate cases would be quite different from the situations in classical elliptic cases.

SHOCK DIFFRACTION PROBLEM BY CONVEX CORNERED WEDGES FOR ISOTHERMAL GAS

We are concerned with the shock diffraction configuration for isothermal gas modeled by the conservation laws of nonlinear wave system.We reformulate the shock diffraction problem into a linear degenerate elliptic equation in a fixed bounded domain.The degeneracy is of Keldysh typw-the derivative of a solution blows up at the boundary.We establish the global existence of solutions and prove the C0,1/2-regularity of solutions near the degenerate boundary.We also compare the difference of solutions between the isothermal gas and the poly tropic gas.

Existence and Uniqueness of Solution for a Class of Nonlinear Degenerate Elliptic Equations

In this work we are interested in the existence and uniqueness of solutions for the Navier problem associated to the degenerate nonlinear elliptic equations■,in the setting of the weighted Sobolev spaces.

A De Giorgi Type Result to Divergence Degenerate Elliptic Equation with Bounded Coefficients Related to Hörmander's Vector Fields

In this paper,we consider the divergence degenerate elliptic equation with bounded coefficients constructed by Hörmander's vector fields.We prove a De Giorgi type result,i.e,the local Holder continuity for the weak solutions to the equation by providing a De Giorgi type lemma and extending the Moser iteration to the setting here.As a consequence,the Harnack inequality of weak solutions is also given.

Existence and Multiplicity Results for a Degenerate Elliptic Equation

The goal of this paper is to study the multiplicity result of positive solutions of a class of degenerate elliptic equations. On the basis of the mountain pass theorems and the sub- and supersolutions argument for p-Laplacian operators, under suitable conditions on the nonlinearity f（x, s）, we show the following problem：-△pu=λu^α-a（x）u^q in Ω,u│δΩ=0 possesses at least two positive solutions for large λ, where Ω is a bounded open subset of R^N, N ≥ 2, with C^2 boundary, λ is a positive parameter, Ap is the p-Laplacian operator with p 〉 1, α, q are given constants such that p - 1 〈α 〈 q, and a（x） is a continuous positive function in Ω^-.

Smoothness of the Gradient of Weak Solutions of Degenerate Linear Equations

Let Q（x） be a nonnegative definite, symmetric matrix such that √Q（X） is Lipschitz con- tinuous. Given a real-valued function b（x） and a weak solution u（x） of div（QVu） = b, we find sufficient conditions in order that √Qu has some first order smoothness. Specifically, if is a bounded open set in Rn, we study when the components of vVu belong to the first order Sobolev space W1＇2（Ω） defined by Sawyer and Wheeden. Alternately we study when each of n first order Lipschitz vector field derivatives Xiu has some first order smoothness if u is a weak solution in Ω of ^-^-1 X^Xiu ＋ b = O. We do not assume that {Xi}is a HSrmander collection of vector fields in ~. The results signal ones for more general equations.