Entire solutions of quasilinear elliptic systems on Carnot groups

Lorenzo D'Ambrosio ; Enzo Mitidieri

Informatics and Automation, Function theory and equations of mathematical physics, Tome 283 (2013), pp. 9-24.

Résumé

We prove general a priori estimates of the solutions of a class of quasilinear elliptic systems on Carnot groups. As a consequence, we obtain several nonexistence theorems. The results are new even in the Euclidean setting.

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