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The eigenvalue problem for a class of degenerate operators related to the normalized $p$-Laplacian

 Department of Mathematics, School of Science, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, Jiangsu, China

Received  October 2020 Revised  March 2021 Early access June 2021

Fund Project: This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11501292)

In this paper, we investigate a weighted Dirichlet eigenvalue problem for a class of degenerate operators related to the
 $h$
degree homogeneous
 $p$
-Laplacian
 $$$\nonumber \left \{ \begin{array}{ll} {|Du|^{h-1}}\Delta_p^N u+ \lambda a(x)|u|^{h-1}u = 0, \quad\quad \rm{in}\quad \Omega, \\ u = 0, \quad\quad \quad \quad \rm{on} \quad\partial\Omega. \end{array}\right.$$$
Here
 $a(x)$
is a positive continuous bounded function in the closure of
 $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n(n\geq 2),$
 $h>1,$
 $2< p<\infty,$
and
 $\Delta_p^N u = \frac{1}{p}|Du|^{2-p} {\rm div}\left(|Du|^{p-2}Du\right)$
is the normalized version of the
 $p$
-Laplacian arising from a stochastic game named Tug-of-War with noise. We prove the existence of the principal eigenvalue
 $\lambda_\Omega$
, which is positive and has a corresponding positive eigenfunction for
 $p>n$
. The method is based on the maximum principle and approach analysis to the weighted eigenvalue problem. When a parameter
 $\lambda<\lambda_\Omega$
, we establish some existence and uniqueness results related to this problem. During this procedure, we also prove some regularity estimates including Hölder continuity and Harnack inequality.
Citation: Fang Liu. The eigenvalue problem for a class of degenerate operators related to the normalized $p$-Laplacian. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2021155
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