NONLINEAR WEIGHTED p-LAPLACIAN ELLIPTIC INEQUALITIES WITH GRADIENT TERMS

Abstract

In this paper, we give sufficient conditions for the existence and nonexistence of nonnegative nontrivial entire weak solutions of p-Laplacian elliptic inequalities, with possibly singular weights and gradient terms, of the form div {g(|x|)|Du|p-2Du} ≥ h(|x|)f(u)ℓ(|Du|). We achieve our conclusions by using a generalized version of the well-known Keller–Ossermann condition, first introduced in [2] for the generalized mean curvature case, and in [11, Sec. 4] for the nonweighted p-Laplacian equation. Several existence results are also proved in Secs. 2 and 3, from which we deduce simple criteria of independent interest stated in the Introduction.