The Liouville theorems for elliptic equations with nonstandard growth

Tomasz  Adamowicz; Przemysław  Górka

doi:10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.2377

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2015, Volume 14, Issue 6: 2377-2392. Doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.2377

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The Liouville theorems for elliptic equations with nonstandard growth

Tomasz Adamowicz^1, and
Przemysław Górka^2,

1.
Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-956 Warsaw, Poland
2.
Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Warsaw University of Technology, Ul. Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warsaw, Poland

Received: February 2015

Revised: June 2015

Published: November 2015

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We study solutions and supersolutions of homogeneous and nonhomogeneous $A$-harmonic equations with nonstandard growth in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Various Liouville-type theorems and nonexistence results are proved. The discussion is illustrated by a number of examples.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 35B53; Secondary: 35J92, 46E30.

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