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Nonexistence of radial solutions of two elliptic boundary value problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Rafael Ortega
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

Synopsis

We consider two boundary value problems (of Neumann or related type) associated with the equation in Ω. The existence of a solution was previously established assuming that p < N/(N −s2). (N dimension of Ω.) We prove that this exponent is critical for these problems, at least in the radially symmetric case when Ω is a ball. This is understood in the sense that the existence result does not hold when pN/(N − 2).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1990

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