American Institue of Mathematical Sciences

2013, 2013(special): 159-169. doi: 10.3934/proc.2013.2013.159

On the lower and upper solution method for the prescribed mean curvature equation in Minkowski space

 1 Dipartimento di Matematica e Geoscienze, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Via A. Valerio 12/1, 34127 Trieste, Italy, Italy

Received  September 2012 Revised  March 2013 Published  November 2013

We develop a lower and upper solution method for the Dirichlet problem associated with the prescribed mean curvature equation in Minkowski space \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -{\rm div}\Big( \nabla u /\sqrt{1 - |\nabla u|^2}\Big)= f(x,u) & \hbox{ in } \Omega, \\ u=0& \hbox{ on } \partial \Omega. \end{cases} \end{equation*} Here $\Omega$ is a bounded regular domain in $\mathbb {R}^N$ and the function $f$ satisfies the Carathéodory conditions. The obtained results display various peculiarities due to the special features of the involved differential operator.
Citation: Chiara Corsato, Franco Obersnel, Pierpaolo Omari, Sabrina Rivetti. On the lower and upper solution method for the prescribed mean curvature equation in Minkowski space. Conference Publications, 2013, 2013 (special) : 159-169. doi: 10.3934/proc.2013.2013.159
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References:
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