# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2011, 30(2): 547-558. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2011.30.547

## Decay estimation for positive solutions of a $\gamma$-Laplace equation

 1 School of Mathematical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210097 2 Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder 3 Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309

Received  June 2010 Published  February 2011

In this paper, we study the properties of the positive solutions of a $\gamma$-Laplace equation in $R^n$

-div$(|\nabla u|^{\gamma-2}\nabla u) =K u^p$,

Here $1<\gamma<2$, $n>\gamma$, $p=\frac{(\gamma-1)(n+\gamma)}{n-\gamma}$ and $K(x)$ is a smooth function bounded by two positive constants. First, the positive solution $u$ of the $\gamma$-Laplace equation above satisfies an integral equation involving a Wolff potential. Based on this, we estimate the decay rate of the positive solutions of the $\gamma$-Laplace equation at infinity. A new method is introduced to fully explore the integrability result established recently by Ma, Chen and Li on Wolff type integral equations to derive the decay estimate.

Citation: Yutian Lei, Congming Li, Chao Ma. Decay estimation for positive solutions of a $\gamma$-Laplace equation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2011, 30 (2) : 547-558. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2011.30.547
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