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Unbounded Supersolutions of Nonlinear Equations with Nonstandard Growth

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We show that every weak supersolution of a variable exponent-Laplace equation is lower semicontinuous and that the singular set of such a function is of zero capacity if the exponent is logarithmically Hölder continuous. As a technical tool we derive Harnack-type estimates for possibly unbounded supersolutions.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 68, Helsinki, 00014, Finland

    Petteri Harjulehto

  2. Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, Oulu, 90014, Finland

    Juha Kinnunen

  3. Institute of Mathematics, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 1100, Espoo, 02015, Finland

    Teemu Lukkari

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Harjulehto, P., Kinnunen, J. & Lukkari, T. Unbounded Supersolutions of Nonlinear Equations with Nonstandard Growth. Bound Value Probl 2007, 048348 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/48348

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Keywords

  • Differential Equation
  • Partial Differential Equation
  • Ordinary Differential Equation
  • Functional Equation
  • Nonlinear Equation