Partial Differential Equations
On the principal eigenvalues and the Dirichlet problem for fully nonlinear operators
[Sur les valuers propres et le problème de Dirichlet pour des opérateurs complètement non-linéaires]
Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Tome 342 (2006) no. 2, pp. 115-118.

On étudie des équations complètement non-linéaires, uniformément elliptiques, du type F(D2u,Du,u,x)=f(x). On

  • – montre que les opérateurs convexes et positivement homogènes de degré 1 possèdent deux valeurs propres et deux fonctions propres principales. On étudie les propriétés de ces objets ;
  • – obtient des résultats d'existence et d'unicité pour des équations qui ne sont pas « propres », mais dont les valeurs propres (l'une ou les deux) sont positives ;
  • – obtient un résultat d'existence pour une équation de Isaac.

We study uniformly elliptic fully nonlinear equations of the type F(D2u,Du,u,x)=f(x). We

  • – show that convex positively 1-homogeneous operators possess two principal eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, and study these objects;
  • – obtain existence and uniqueness results for non-proper operators whose principal eigenvalues (in some cases, only one of them) are positive;
  • – obtain an existence result for non-proper Isaac's equations.

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DOI : 10.1016/j.crma.2005.11.003
Quaas, Alexander 1 ; Sirakov, Boyan 2, 3

1 Departamento de Matemática, Universidad Santa María, Avenida España 1680, Casilla 110-V, Valparaíso, Chile
2 UFR SEGMI, Université Paris 10, 92001 Nanterre cedex, France
3 CAMS, EHESS, 54, boulevard Raspail, 75270 Paris cedex 06, France
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Quaas, Alexander; Sirakov, Boyan. On the principal eigenvalues and the Dirichlet problem for fully nonlinear operators. Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Tome 342 (2006) no. 2, pp. 115-118. doi : 10.1016/j.crma.2005.11.003. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1016/j.crma.2005.11.003/

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