Remarks on elliptic problems involving the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities

Li, Gongbao; Peng, Shuangjie

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-07-09229-5

Remarks on elliptic problems involving the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities
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by Gongbao Li and Shuangjie Peng

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), 1221-1228

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-07-09229-5

Published electronically: December 18, 2007

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Abstract:

We give some regularity results of the solutions and a Liouville type theorem to singular elliptic equations involving the Caffarelli-Kohn- Nirenberg inequalities.

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