Paper 2, Section II, B

Partial Differential Equations
Part II, 2012

Consider the elliptic Dirichlet problem on ΩRn,Ω\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{n}, \Omega bounded with a smooth boundary:

Δueu=f in Ω,u=uD on Ω.\Delta u-e^{u}=f \text { in } \Omega, \quad u=u_{D} \text { on } \partial \Omega .

Assume that uDL(Ω)u_{D} \in L^{\infty}(\partial \Omega) and fL(Ω)f \in L^{\infty}(\Omega).

(i) State the strong Minimum-Maximum Principle for uniformly elliptic operators.

(ii) Prove that there exists at most one classical solution of the boundary value problem.

(iii) Assuming further that f0f \geqslant 0 in Ω\Omega, use the maximum principle to obtain an upper bound on the solution (assuming that it exists).