Positive solutions of inhomogeneous Kirchhoff type equations with indefinite data

Aolin Chen; Qiuyi Dai

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Positive solutions of inhomogeneous Kirchhoff type equations with indefinite data

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Pith's one-line read For large b and subcritical exponents, positive Kirchhoff solvability is equivalent to the linear problem being solvable.

desk verdict A credible, mostly correct extension of the semilinear theory to Kirchhoff equations; the main iff theorem leans on an imported lemma that the paper should either prove or quote precisely. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.06562 v1 pith:UF367ME5 submitted 2019-08-19 math.AP

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The reading

The paper studies the inhomogeneous Kirchhoff equation $-(1+b\|\nabla u\|_2^{2\alpha})\Delta u=u^p+\lambda f$ on a smooth bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where $f$ may change sign. Its central claim is that, in the subcritical regime $1b_0$, positive solvability for every $\lambda>0$ is exactly equivalent to $f$ lying in the set $M$ of data for which the linear problem $-\Delta v=f$, $v\ge 0$, $v|_{\partial\Omega}=0$ is solvable. In that regime the solution is also unique for small $\lambda$ when $\alpha\ge 1/2$. A sympathetic reader should care because it shows the nonlocal term does not obstruct solvability: the whole Kirchhoff problem inherits its solvability profile from a linear Poisson problem, in contrast to the semilinear case where a finite $\lambda$ threshold and two solutions appear. The paper also establishes multiplicity in the intermediate range $2\alpha+12^*$ on starshaped domains.

What carries the argument

The central objects are the data set $M$, the threshold $b_0=(p-1)\gamma^{\gamma/(p-1)}(2\alpha l)^{-2\alpha/(p-1)}$ with $\gamma=2\alpha+1-p$ and $l=S^{(p+1)/2}(\Omega)$, and the scaling identity connecting Kirchhoff solutions to linear ones. If $u$ solves (1.1), then $v=(1+b\|\nabla u\|_2^{2\alpha})u/\lambda$ solves $-\Delta v=f$, and conversely a solution of the linear problem yields a Kirchhoff solution once an algebraic equation in the nonlocal coefficient is solved. The threshold $b_0$ enters through Lemma 2.4, which rules out positive solutions of the homogeneous problem $-(1+b\|\nabla u\|_2^{2\alpha})\Delta u=u^p$, making the small-$\lambda$ limit vanish and thereby driving the necessity of $f\in M$. In the supercritical range, the Pohozaev identity and an iterative comparison sequence replace the variational machinery.

What would settle it

Find a positive classical solution of the homogeneous Kirchhoff problem $-(1+b\|\nabla u\|_2^{2\alpha})\Delta u=u^p$, $u>0$, $u|_{\partial\Omega}=0$, on a bounded smooth domain with $1<p<2\alpha+1$ and $b>b_0$; any such solution contradicts Lemma 2.4 and therefore the necessity in Theorem 2.2. Alternatively, for an $f$ known not to lie in $M$, any positive solution of (1.1) for large $\lambda$ would refute the theorem's nonexistence conclusions.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The main discovery, Theorem 2.2, is that for $1<p<2\alpha+1$ and $b>b_0$, the problem (1.1) has a positive solution for every $\lambda>0$ if and only if $f\in M$, and for $\alpha\ge 1/2$ the positive solution is unique when $\lambda$ is small. The necessity proof sets $u_\lambda=\lambda v_\lambda$, shows that $v_\lambda$ stays bounded through elliptic estimates, and lets $\lambda\to0$; the imported no-solution lemma for the homogeneous Kirchhoff problem forces $u_\lambda\to0$, so the limit $v$ is a nonnegative solution of the linear problem $-\Delta v=f$. The sufficiency direction starts from a solution $v$ of the linear problem and rescales it by the nonlocal coefficient, while the variational argument with Ekeland's principle produces the positive solution. In the supercritical case $p>2^*$ on starshaped domains, Theorem 4.1 proves the analogous equivalence for small $\lambda$, with the Pohozaev identity supplying the uniform bound that makes the limiting linear solution nontrivial.

Load-bearing premise

The argument's 'only if' direction relies on an imported lemma that the homogeneous Kirchhoff problem has no positive solution when $b>b_0$ and $1<p<2\alpha+1$; if that lemma is false, the equivalence collapses.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

For $1<p<2\alpha+1$, membership in $M$ alone guarantees a positive solution for every $\lambda>0$, with no restriction on $b$.
For $b>b_0$, the converse holds: if a positive solution exists for every $\lambda>0$, then $f\in M$, so $M$ is the exact data class in this regime.
For small $\lambda$ and $\alpha\ge 1/2$, the positive solution is unique when $b>b_0$; the nonlocal effect suppresses the second solution seen in the semilinear case.
For $2\alpha+1<p<2^*$, data in $M$ produce at least two positive solutions for small $\lambda$ and no solution for large $\lambda$.
For $p>2^*$ on starshaped domains, small-$\lambda$ existence is equivalent to $f\in M$ and no positive solution exists for large $\lambda$.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

One could test the sharpness of $b_0$ numerically: if the homogeneous Kirchhoff problem develops a positive solution exactly at $b=b_0$, then the threshold in (1.5) is optimal rather than merely sufficient.
The convergence $u_\lambda/\lambda\to v$ in the necessity proof suggests that, for $b>b_0$, the unique small-$\lambda$ solution is asymptotic to $\lambda$ times the minimal linear solution; this asymptotic could be used to recover membership in $M$ from solution data.
The same scaling identity should extend to more general nonlocal coefficients $M(\|\nabla u\|_2)$ as long as the associated algebraic equation is monotone and a no-solution lemma holds; the failure of the comparison principle is the main obstacle.

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Quick take: this is a legitimate paper that fills a real gap in the Kirchhoff literature. The main theorems are new and the variational machinery is competently handled; the weak points are missing proof details, not wrong mathematics.

What is new: for 1b0, positive solvability for every λ>0 is equivalent to f∈M (Theorem 2.2). That is a clean statement and it genuinely differs from the semilinear case, where λ must be small. The multiplicity and nonexistence results in the subcritical and supercritical regimes are also new for Kirchhoff-type equations.

What works well: Theorem 2.1 is a solid Ekeland argument with the right coercivity coming from 1

Where the soft spots are: the 'only if' direction of Theorem 2.2 rests on Lemma 2.4, imported from the authors' own [17] with no proof. I believe the lemma is true—the stress-test note gives a short scaling derivation—but as written the paper is not self-contained and the reader cannot check whether [17] proves it under the same hypotheses (p-range, domain geometry, normalization of b0). That should be fixed. In Lemma 4.2, the existence of each iterate u_{n+1} is asserted: the equation for u_{n+1} has a coefficient depending on ||∇u_{n+1}||, and no fixed-point argument is given. This is a genuine gap, but a small one: a continuity argument on t↦C/(1+b t^{2α}) closes it. In Lemma 4.3, the uniform bound (4.18) appears without the interpolation detail; it follows from Hölder and Poincare once you notice μ_λ→0, but the reader has to do the work.

None of these issues look fatal. The central claims are plausible and the omitted steps are routine. The paper deserves a serious referee and will likely be publishable after revision.

For whom: anyone working on Kirchhoff-type equations or sign-changing data in elliptic problems. It is not a paper you would assign to a general reading group, but a specialized group would find the contrast with the semilinear case worth discussing.

Recommendation: send it to peer review. Ask the authors to either prove Lemma 2.4 in this paper or state precisely what [17] establishes, and to fill the fixed-point and interpolation steps in Section 4.

Referee Report

4 major / 6 minor

Summary. The paper studies positive solutions of the inhomogeneous Kirchhoff-type Dirichlet problem (1.1) with sign-changing data f. It introduces the set M of data for which the linear problem -Δu=f, u≥0 is solvable, and establishes: (i) for 1<p<2α+1 and f∈M, a positive solution exists for every λ>0; (ii) if, in addition, b>b0 for the constant in (1.5), positive solvability for every λ>0 is equivalent to f∈M, with uniqueness for small λ when α≥1/2; (iii) for 2α+1<p<2* and f∈M, two positive solutions exist for small λ and none for large λ; (iv) for p>2* on starshaped domains, existence for small λ is equivalent to f∈M, with nonexistence for large λ. The proofs combine variational methods, comparison principles, algebraic constructions, and several imported a priori results. The central claims are plausible, but the manuscript as written has important gaps in the imported lemmas and in the iterative scheme of Section 4.

Significance. If correct, the paper gives a fairly complete description of how the nonlocal coefficient changes the solvability profile relative to the semilinear problem: in the range 1<p<2α+1 and for large b, the λ-restriction disappears and the solution is unique for small λ. The variational arguments in Sections 2 and 3 are mostly standard and the strong-convergence and positivity steps are handled carefully. The proposed iteration for the supercritical case in Section 4 is a useful idea even though the well-definedness step needs repair. The paper is a potentially valuable contribution to the Kirchhoff-type literature, but the heavy reliance on unproved external lemmas, especially Lemma 2.4, means the central equivalence theorem is not self-contained in its present form.

major comments (4)

[Section 2, Lemma 2.4] The 'only if' direction of Theorem 2.2 rests on Lemma 2.4, the assertion that for 1<p<2α+1 and b>b0 the homogeneous problem (2.15) has no positive solution. This lemma is quoted from [17] without proof and without a statement of the hypotheses under which it is established. In Lemma 2.5, the convergence of uλ to 0 is proved by contradiction, and the contradiction uses exactly this no-solution result; if [17] proves a different statement (for example, with a different normalization of b0 or under additional domain/geometry assumptions), the passage (2.24)-(2.30) does not yield f∈M. Please either reproduce a self-contained proof of Lemma 2.4 or state the result from [17] with full hypotheses and verify that all of them are satisfied in the present setting. The scaling argument (mapping a solution u of (2.15) to v=u/(1+b||∇u||^{2α})^{1/(p-1)}, which solves -Δv=v^p, and comparing the algebraic relation c^{p-1}=1+b c^{2α}||∇v||^2 with the Sobolev lower bound) shows the lemma is plausible, so this is a missing-support concern rather than a counterexample.
[Section 4, Eq. (4.5)] The iteration in Lemma 4.2 defines u_{n+1} by the problem -(1+b||∇u_{n+1}||^{2α})Δu_{n+1}=u_n^p+λf. This is not a linear Dirichlet problem for u_{n+1}, because the coefficient depends on the unknown function u_{n+1} itself. The manuscript proceeds as though existence of u_{n+1} were immediate, and the subsequent comparison estimates (4.9)-(4.12) and the Schauder bound all rely on that step. The gap is repairable: since u_n^p+λf∈M when f∈M and u_n is a bounded nonnegative function, one may apply Lemma 2.3 to obtain u_{n+1}. Please add this justification, or an equivalent fixed-point argument, before the induction.
[Section 3, Lemma 3.5] The nonexistence parts of Theorems 3.1 and 4.1 rely on Lemma 3.6, which imports Lemma 3.5 from [16,19] as a black box, including the uniform bound ||∇uλ||2≤C for all solutions of the semilinear problem (3.21) for λ∈(0,λf). This uniform bound is essential for inequality (3.24) and for the definition of Λf at the end of Lemma 3.6. Please state Lemma 3.5 as a precise theorem with all hypotheses, and either indicate where each assertion is proved in [16,19] or provide a proof sketch, so that the reader can verify that the uniformity in λ holds for all f∈M and for all solutions, not only for the constructed solutions.
[Section 2, Lemma 2.6] In the uniqueness proof, the assertion that C2(λ)+||∇vλ||2C1(λ)→0 as λ→0 uses Lemma 2.5, which gives only L∞ decay of uλ and vλ. However, C1(λ) contains the H01 norms ||∇uλ||2 and ||∇vλ||2, so the stated convergence requires also that these H01 norms tend to zero. That fact does follow by multiplying (2.16) by uλ and integrating, but the argument is not given. Please include this step, since it is needed for the uniqueness claim in Theorem 2.2.

minor comments (6)

[Title and abstract] There are typographical errors in the title ('Positve') and in the abstract formatting; these should be corrected.
[Section 2, Lemma 2.3] The equation for h(y) is typeset incorrectly: it should read h(y)=b y^{α+1/2}+y^{1/2}-λ||∇v||_2, with a subscript on the norm.
[Section 2, before (2.13)] There is an extra parenthesis in the displayed equation for ϕ: '−(1 +b‖∇ϕ‖2α )2 )∆ ϕ' should be '−(1 +b‖∇ϕ‖2α)∆ ϕ'.
[Section 3, Lemma 3.3, Step 1] The definition of βf appears dimensionally inconsistent: the estimate (3.9) requires λ^2/λ1(Ω)||f||_2^2≤E1/4, which imposes βf of order sqrt(λ1(Ω)E1)/||f||_2. Please clarify the formula and the choices of βf and E0.
[Section 3, Lemma 3.4] The choice of λ* after the estimate ||∇ϕλ||2≤ρ0/√2 appears to have a missing factor; the displayed formula should be checked so that the intended bound is transparent.
[Section 4, inequalities (4.10) and (4.12)] The comparison argument can be made more transparent by writing, for instance, -Δ(u_{k+1}-φλ/(1+b||∇u_{k+1}||^{2α}))≥0 with zero boundary values, so that the positivity of the factor in the denominator is explicit; the current wording is slightly compressed.

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No significant circularity: the main existence and necessity arguments are variational, compactness, and scaling based; the only self-citation burden is the black-box import of Lemma 2.4 from the authors' earlier paper.

full rationale

The sufficiency direction (Theorem 2.1) is self-contained: Iλ is coercive for 1 < p < 2α + 1, Ekeland's principle yields a critical point, and comparison with the auxiliary solution of (2.1) supplied by Lemma 2.3 gives positivity. Lemma 2.3 itself is proved in the paper by an algebraic fixed-point reduction to the linear problem defining M, so it is not circular. The necessity direction of Theorem 2.2 uses Lemma 2.5, whose contradiction argument would produce a nontrivial nonnegative solution of the homogeneous Kirchhoff problem if ‖uλ‖∞ did not tend to 0; Lemma 2.4, quoted from [17], rules that out. This is an external published theorem, not a restatement of the target result, and the paper does not fit any parameter to make it true. The same holds for Lemma 3.5 from [16,19], used in Lemma 3.6 through the explicit scaling v = u/(1+b‖∇u‖^{2α})^{1/(p-1)}; this is a reduction to a different semilinear problem, not a renaming of the Kirchhoff conclusion. The only genuinely load-bearing self-citation is Lemma 2.4, imported without proof or stated auxiliary hypotheses, so the necessity direction is not auditable from the manuscript alone. That is a missing-support and correctness-risk issue, not a definitional or constructional circularity, and I therefore assign a low score of 2 to reflect the black-box self-citation while emphasizing that no step identifies a prediction with a fitted input or derives the theorem from its own conclusion.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No data or fitted constants are involved; the thresholds b0, lambda_f, Lambda_f, beta_f, rho_0 are mathematical constants that depend on Omega, f, p, alpha, b. The central results rest on standard elliptic and variational tools plus two imported prior theorems from the authors' own work, listed above. There are no invented entities.

assumptions (5)

standard math Sobolev embedding, Poincare, Holder and Young inequalities; Ekeland variational principle; mountain pass theorem; strong maximum principle; Schauder and elliptic regularity.
Used across Sections 2-4 without proof; standard background in elliptic PDE.
domain assumption Omega is a bounded domain in R^N with smooth boundary; f is in C^1(Omega bar) \ {0}; b > 0, p > 1, alpha in the stated range.
Stated in problem (1.1) and maintained throughout; regularity and boundary arguments require it.
domain assumption Lemma 2.4 of [17]: for 1 < p < 2 alpha + 1 and b > b0, the homogeneous problem (2.15) has no positive solution.
Imported without proof; supports Lemma 2.5 and the necessity direction of Theorem 2.2. If false, the iff result fails.
domain assumption Lemma 3.5 of [16,19]: semilinear problem (3.21) has a solution for lambda in (0, lambda_f) and none for lambda > lambda_f, with a uniform gradient bound.
Used in Lemma 3.6 to prove nonexistence for large lambda in Theorems 3.1 and 4.1.
standard math Pohozaev identity of [25] for classical solutions of Delta omega + g(x, omega) = 0.
Used in Lemma 4.3 to derive the uniform bound that forces f in M in the supercritical case.

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Inhomogeneous Kirchhoff type equations with indefinite data are considered. Some necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of positive solutions of the problem under consideration are presented.

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Q. Y. Dai, E. H. Lan, F. L. Shi, A priori bounds for positiv e solutions of Kirchhoﬀ type equations, Comput. Math. Appl., 76 (6)(2018),1525-15 34

work page 2018

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G. A. Afrouzi, N. T. Chung, S. Shakeri, Exstence of positi ve solutions for Kirchhoﬀ type equations, Electron.J.Diﬀerential Equations, 2013(1 80)(2013), 1-8

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