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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Inequalities and Applications Volume 2010, Article ID 915739, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2010/915739 ResearchArticleExistenceofSolutionsandNonnegativeSolutionsforPrescribedVariableExponentMeanCurvatureImpulsiveSystemInitializedBoundaryValue Problems Guizhen Zhi, 1 Liang Zhao, 2 Guangxia Chen, 3 Xiaopin Liu, 1 and Qihu Zhang 1, 4 1 Department of Mathematics and Information Science, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou, Henan 450002, China 2 Academic Administration, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang, Henan 453003, China 3 School of Mathematics and Informatics, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, Henan 454003, China 4 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079, China Correspondence should be addressed to Qihu Zhang, zhangqh1999@yahoo.com.cn Received 10 May 2009; Accepted 23 January 2010 Academic Editor: Ond ˇ rej Dosly Copyright q 2010 Guizhen Zhi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper investigates the existenceofsolutionsandnonnegativesolutionsforprescribedvariableexponentmeancurvatureimpulsivesysteminitializedboundaryvalue problems. The proof of our main result is based upon Leray-Schauder’s degree. The sufficient conditions for the existenceofsolutionsandnonnegativesolutions have been given. 1. Introduction The theory ofimpulsive differential equations describes processes which experience a sudden change of their state at certain moments. On the Laplacian impulsive differential equations boundaryvalue problems, there are many results see 1–5. Because of the nonlinearity of p-Laplacian, the results about p-Laplacian impulsive differential equations boundaryvalue problems are rare see 6.In7, 8, the authors discussed the existenceofsolutionsof pr-Laplacian systemimpulsiveboundaryvalue problems. Recently, the existenceand asymptotic behavior ofsolutionsofcurvature equations have been studied extensively see 9–15.In16, the authors generalized the usual meancurvature systems to variableexponentmeancurvature systems. In this paper, we consider the existenceof 2 Journal of Inequalities and Applications solutionsandnonnegativesolutionsfor the prescribedvariableexponentmeancurvaturesystem − ϕ r, u f r, u, u 0,r∈ 0,T ,r / r i , 1.1 where u : 0,T → R N , with the following impulsiveinitializedboundaryvalue condi- tions lim r → r i u r − lim r → r − i u r A i lim r → r − i u r , lim r → r − i u r ,i 1, ,k, 1.2 lim r → r i ϕ r, u r − lim r → r − i ϕ r, u r B i lim r → r − i u r , lim r → r − i u r ,i 1, ,k, 1.3 u 0 u 0 0, 1.4 where ϕ r, x | x | pr−1 x 1 | x | qrpr 1/qr , ∀r ∈ 0,T ,x∈ R N , 1.5 p, q ∈ C0,T, R are absolutely continuous, where p, q satisfy pr ≥ 1,qr ≥ 1, −ϕr, u is called the variableexponentmeancurvature operator, 0 <r 1 <r 2 < ··· < r k <Tand A i ,B i ∈ CR N × R N , R N . For any v ∈ R N , v j will denote the jth component of v; the inner product in R N will be denoted by ·, ·; |·|will denote the absolute valueand the Euclidean norm on R N . Denote that J 0,T, J 0,T \{r 0 ,r 1 , ,r k1 },andJ 0 r 0 ,r 1 , J i r i ,r i1 , i 1, ,k, where r 0 0, r k1 T. Denote that J o i is the interior of J i , i 0, 1, ,k.Let PC J, R N ⎧ ⎨ ⎩ x : J −→ R N x ∈ C J i , R N ,i 0, 1, ,k, lim r → r i x r exists for i 1, ,k ⎫ ⎬ ⎭ , PC 1 J, R N ⎧ ⎨ ⎩ x ∈ PC J, R N x ∈ C J o i , R N , lim r → r i x r and lim r → r − i1 x r exist for i 0, 1, ,k ⎫ ⎬ ⎭ . 1.6 For any uru 1 r, ,u N r ∈ PCJ, R N , denote that |u i | 0 sup{|u i r||r ∈ J }. Obviously, PCJ, R N is a Banach space with the norm u 0 N i1 |u i | 2 0 1/2 ,andPC 1 J, R N is a Banach space with the norm u 1 u 0 u 0 . In the following, PCJ, R N and PC 1 J, R N will be simply denoted by PC and PC 1 , respectively. Denote that L 1 L 1 J, R N , and the norm in L 1 is u L 1 N i1 T 0 |u i r|dr 2 1/2 . The study of differential equations and variational problems with variableexponent conditions is a new and interesting topic. For the applied background on this kind of problems we refer to 17–19. Many results have been obtained on this kind of problems, Journal of Inequalities and Applications 3 for example, 20–35.Ifpr ≡ p a constant and qr ≡ q a constant, then 1.1 is the well- known meancurvature system. Since problems with variableexponent growth conditions are more complex than those with constant exponent growth conditions, many methods and results for the latter are invalid for the former; for example, if Ω ⊂ R n is a bounded domain, the Rayleigh quotient λ px inf u∈W 1,px 0 Ω\{0} Ω 1/p x | ∇u | px dx Ω 1/p x | u | px dx 1.7 is zero in general, and only under some special conditions λ px > 0 see 25, but the fact that λ p > 0 is very important in the study of p-Laplacian problems. In this paper, we investigate the existenceofsolutionsfor the prescribedvariableexponentmeancurvatureimpulsive differential systeminitializedboundaryvalue problems; the proof of our main result is based upon Leray-Schauder’s degree. This paper was motivated by 6, 13, 36. Let N ≥ 1, then the function f : J × R N × R N → R N is assumed to be Caratheodory; by this we mean that i for almost every t ∈ J the function ft, ·, · is continuous, ii for each x, y ∈ R N × R N the function f·,x,y is measurable on J, iii for each R>0 there is a β R ∈ L 1 J, R such that, for almost every t ∈ J and every x, y ∈ R N × R N with |x|≤R, |y|≤R, one has f t, x, y ≤ β R t . 1.8 We say a function u : J → R N is a solution of 1.1 if u ∈ PC 1 with ϕr, u absolutely continuous on J o i , i 0, 1, ,k, which satisfies 1.1 a.e. on J. This paper is divided into three sections; in the second section, we present some preliminary. Finally, in the third section, we give the existenceofsolutionsandnonnegativesolutionsforsystem 1.1–1.4. 2. Preliminary In this section, we will do some preparation. Lemma 2.1 see 16. ϕ is a continuous function and satisfies the following. i For any r ∈ J, ϕr, · is strictly monotone, that is, ϕ r, x 1 − ϕ r, x 2 ,x 1 − x 2 > 0, for any x 1 ,x 2 ∈ R N ,x 1 / x 2 . 2.1 ii For any fixed r ∈ J, ϕr, · is a homeomorphism from R N to E x ∈ R N | | x | < 1 . 2.2 4 Journal of Inequalities and Applications For any r ∈ J, denote by ϕ −1 r, · the inverse operator of ϕr, ·,then ϕ −1 r, x 1 − | x | qr −1/prqr | x | 1/pr−1 x, for x ∈ E \ { 0 } ,ϕ −1 r, 0 0. 2.3 Let one now consider the following simple problem: ϕ r, u r h r ,r∈ 0,T ,r / r i , 2.4 with the following impulsiveboundaryvalue conditions: lim r → r i u r − lim r → r − i u r i a i ,i 1, ,k, lim r → r i ϕ r, u r − lim r → r − i ϕ r, u r b i ,i 1, ,k, u 0 u 0 0, 2.5 where a i ,b i ∈ R N , k i1 |b i | < 1; h ∈ L 1 . Obviously, u 00 implies that ϕ0,u 0 0. If u is a solution of 2.4 with 2.5,by integrating 2.4 from 0 to r, then one finds that ϕ r, u r r i <r b i r 0 h t dt, ∀r ∈ J . 2.6 Define a a 1 , ,a k ∈ R kN ,bb 1 , ,b k ∈ R kN , and operator F : L 1 → PC as F h r r 0 h t dt, ∀h ∈ L 1 . 2.7 From the definition of ϕ, one can see that sup r∈J r i <r b i F h r < 1. 2.8 Denote that D b h ∈ L 1 sup r∈J r i <r b i F h r < 1 . 2.9 By 2.6, one has u r r i <r a i F ϕ −1 r, r i <r b i F h r , ∀r ∈ J. 2.10 Journal of Inequalities and Applications 5 Denote that W R 2kN × L 1 with the norm w W k i1 | a i | k i1 | b i | h L 1 , ∀w a, b, h ∈ W, 2.11 then W is a Banach space. Let one define the nonlinear operator K b : D b → PC 1 as K b h r F ϕ −1 r, r i <r b i F h r , ∀r ∈ J. 2.12 Lemma 2.2. The operator K b is continuous and sends closed equiintegrable subsets of D b into relatively compact sets in PC 1 . Proof. It is easy to check that K b h· ∈ PC 1 , for all h ∈ D b . Since K b h t ϕ −1 t, r i <t b i F h , ∀t ∈ J, 2.13 it is easy to check that K b is a continuous operator from D b to PC 1 . Let now U be a closed equiintegrable set in D b , then there exists η ∈ L 1 , such that, for any u ∈ U, | u t | ≤ η t a.e. on J. 2.14 We want to show that K b U ⊂ PC 1 is a compact set. Let {u n } is a sequence in K b U, then there exists a sequence {h n }∈U such that u n K b h n . For any t 1 ,t 2 ∈ J, we have that | F h n t 1 − F h n t 2 | ≤ t 2 t 1 η t dt . 2.15 Hence the sequence {Fh n } is uniformly bounded and equicontinuous. By Ascoli- Arzela theorem, there exists a subsequence of {Fh n } which we rename the same that is convergent in PC. Then the sequence ϕ t, K b h n t r i <t b i F h n 2.16 is convergent according to the norm in PC. Since K b h n t F ϕ −1 t, r i <t b i F h n t , ∀t ∈ J, 2.17 6 Journal of Inequalities and Applications according to the continuity of ϕ −1 , we can see that K b h n is convergent in PC. Thus we conclude that {u n } is convergent in PC 1 . This completes the proof. We denote that N f u :PC 1 → L 1 is the Nemytski operator associated to f defined by N f u r f r, u r ,u r , a.e. on J. 2.18 Define K :PC 1 → PC 1 as K u r F ϕ −1 r, r i <r B i F N f u r , ∀r ∈ J, 2.19 where B i B i lim r → r − i ur, lim r → r − i u r. Lemma 2.3. u is a solution of 1.1–1.4 if and only if u is a solution of the following abstract equation: u r i <r A i K u , 2.20 where A i A i lim r → r − i ur, lim r → r − i u r, B i B i lim r → r − i ur, and lim r → r − i u r. Proof. i If u is a solution of 1.1–1.4,sinceu 00 implies that ϕ0,u 0 0, by integrating 1.1 from 0 to r, then we find that ϕ r, u r r i <r B i r 0 f t, u, u dt, ∀r ∈ J . 2.21 Thus u r i <r A i K u . 2.22 Hence u is a solution of 2.20. ii If u is a solution of 2.20, then it is easy to see that 1.2 is satisfied. Let r 0, then we have u 0 0. 2.23 From 2.20 we also have ϕ r, u r i <r B i F N f u r ,r∈ 0,T ,r / r i , 2.24 ϕr, u f r, u, u ,r∈ 0,T ,r / r i . 2.25 Journal of Inequalities and Applications 7 From 2.24, we can see that 1.3 is satisfied. Let r 0, from 2.24, then we have ϕ 0,u 0 0. 2.26 Since ϕr, x|x| pr−1 x/1 |x| qrpr 1/qr 0, we must have x 0; thus, u 0 0. 2.27 Hence u is a solution of 1.1–1.4. This completes the proof. 3. Main Results and Proofs In this section, we will apply Leray-Schauder’s degree to deal with the existenceofsolutionsfor 1.1–1.4. We assume that H 0 k i1 |B i u, v| < 1/2, for all u, v ∈ R N × R N . Theorem 3.1. If (H 0 ) is satisfied, then 0 ∈ Ω is an open bounded set in PC 1 such that the following conditions hold. 1 0 For any u ∈ Ω, the mapping r → fr, u, u belongs to {v ∈ L 1 |v L 1 < 1/3}. 2 0 For each λ ∈ 0, 1, the problem ϕ r, u λf r, u, u ,r∈ 0,T ,r / r i , lim r → r i u r − lim r → r − i u r λA i lim r → r − i u r , lim r → r − i u r ,i 1, ,k, lim r → r i ϕ r, u r − lim r → r − i ϕ r, u r λB i lim r → r − i u r , lim r → r − i u r ,i 1, ,k, u 0 u 0 0 3.1 has no solution on ∂Ω. Then 1.1–1.4 has at least one solution on Ω. Proof. Denote that A i A i lim r → r − i u r , lim r → r − i u r ,B i B i lim r → r − i u r , lim r → r − i u r . 3.2 For any λ ∈ 0, 1, define K λ :PC 1 → PC 1 as K λ u r F ϕ −1 r, r i <r λB i F λN f u r , ∀r ∈ J. 3.3 Denote that Ψu, λ : λ r i <r A i K λ u. 8 Journal of Inequalities and Applications We know that 1.1–1.4 has the same solutionsof u Ψ u, 1 r i <r A i K 1 u . 3.4 Since f is Caratheodory, it is easy to see that N f · is continuous and sends bounded sets into equiintegrable sets. According to Lemma 2.2, we can conclude that Ψ is compact continuous on Ω for any λ ∈ 0, 1. We assume that for λ 1 3.4 does not have a solution on ∂Ω; otherwise, we complete the proof. Now from hypothesis 2 0 , it follows that 3.4 has no solution for u,λ ∈ ∂Ω × 0, 1. When λ 0, 3.1 is equivalent to the following usual problem: − ϕ r, u 0,u 0 u 0 0, 3.5 where obviously 0 is the unique solution to this problem. Since 0 ∈ Ω, we have proved that 3.4 has no solution u,λ on ∂Ω×0, 1, then we get that, for each λ ∈ 0, 1, Leray-Schauder’s degree d LS I − Ψ·,λ, Ω, 0 is well defined. From the homotopy invariant property of that degree, we have d LS I − Ψ u, 1 , Ω, 0 d LS I − Ψ u, 0 , Ω, 0 1. 3.6 This completes the proof. In the following, we will give an application of Theorem 3.1. Denote that σ 4T/4T 1 and Ω ε u ∈ PC 1 max 1≤j≤N u j 0 u j 0 <ε . 3.7 Obviously, Ω ε is an open subset of PC 1 . Assume that H 1 fr, u, vδgr, u, v, where δ is a positive parameter, and g is Caratheodory. H 2 k i1 |A i u, v|≤ σ/2ε, k i1 |B i u, v|≤{min r∈I |ε/4T 1| pr /21|Nε| qrpr 1/qr , 1/2}, for all u, v ∈ R N × R N . Theorem 3.2. If H 1 -H 2 are satisfied, then problem 1.1–1.4 has at least one solution on Ω ε , when positive parameter δ is small enough. Proof. Let one consider the problem u Ψ u, λ λ r i <r A i K λ u , 3.8 where K λ · is defined in 3.3. Journal of Inequalities and Applications 9 Obviously, u is a solution of 1.1–1.4 if and only if u is a solution of the abstract equation 3.8 when λ 1. We only need to prove that the conditions of Theorem 3.1 are satisfied. 1 0 When positive parameter δ is small enough, for any u ∈ Ω ε , we can see that the mapping r → δgr, u, u belongs to {u ∈ L 1 |u L 1 < 1/3}. 2 0 We shall prove that for each λ ∈ 0, 1 the problem ϕ r, u λf r, u, u ,r∈ 0,T ,r / r i , lim r → r i u r − lim r → r − i u r λA i lim r → r − i u r , lim r → r − i u r ,i 1, ,k, lim r → r i ϕ r, u r − lim r → r − i ϕ r, u r λB i lim r → r − i u r , lim r → r − i u r ,i 1, ,k, u 0 u 0 0 3.9 has no solution on ∂Ω ε . If it is false, then there exists a λ ∈ 0, 1 and u ∈ ∂Ω ε is a solution of 3.8. Then there exists an j ∈{1, ,N} such that |u j | 0 |u j | 0 ε. i Suppose that |u j | 0 ≥ σε, then |u j | 0 ≤ 1 − σε. For any r ∈ J, since u00, according to H 2 and 1.2, we have u j r u j r − u j 0 r 0 u j t dt 0<r i <r A i ≤ T 0 u j t dt 0<r i <r | A i | ≤ T 0 1 − σ εdr k i1 | A i | ≤ σ 4 ε σ 2 ε 3σ 4 ε. 3.10 It is a contradiction. ii Suppose that |u j | 0 <σε, 1−σε<|u j | 0 ≤ ε. This implies that |u j r ∗ | > 1−σε 1/4T 1ε for some r ∗ ∈ J. Denote that ϕ j r, u r | u | pr−1 u j r 1 | u | qrpr 1/qr . 3.11 10 Journal of Inequalities and Applications Since u 00, we have ϕ j r ∗ ,u r ∗ λ r ∗ 0 f j r, u, u dr λ 0<r i <r ∗ B j i . 3.12 According to H 1 -H 2 , when positive parameter δ is small enough, we have | ε/4T 1 | pr ∗ 1 | Nε | qr ∗ pr ∗ 1/qr ∗ ≤ ϕ j r ∗ ,u r ∗ ≤ λ r ∗ 0 f j r, u, u dr λ 0<r i <r ∗ B j i ≤ δ T 0 β Nε r dr k i1 | B i | < | ε/4T 1 | pr ∗ 1 | Nε | qr ∗ pr ∗ 1/qr ∗ . 3.13 It is a contradiction. Summarizing this argument, for each λ ∈ 0, 1, the problem 3.8 with 1.4 has no solution on ∂Ω ε . Since 0 ∈ Ω ε and 0 is the unique solution of u Ψu, 0, then the Leray-Schauder’s degree d LS I − Ψ ·, 0 , Ω, 0 1 / 0. 3.14 This completes the proof. In the following, we will discuss the existenceofnonnegativesolutionsof 1.1–1.4. For any x {x 1 , ,x N }∈R N , the notation x ≥ 0 x>0 means that x l ≥ 0 x l > 0 for every l ∈{1, ,N}. Assume the following H 3 fr, u, vδgr, u, v, where δ is a positive parameter, and g r, u, v τ r | u | q 1 r−1 u μ r | v | q 2 r−1 v γ r , 3.15 where q 1 ,q 2 ∈ CJ, R, 0 ≤ q 1 r,and0≤ q 2 r, for all r ∈ J. H 4 A j i x, yy j ≥ 0, and B j i x, yy j ≥ 0, for all x, y ∈ R N ,i 1, ,k, j 1, ,N. H 5 μ, τ ∈ CJ, R . H 6 γ γ 1 , ,γ N ∈ CJ, R N satisfies γ0 > 0, t 0 γsds ≥ 0, for all t ∈ 0,T. Theorem 3.3. If H 2 –H 6 are satisfied, then the problem 1.1–1.4 has a nonnegative solution, when positive parameter δ is small enough. 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The proof of our main result. Corporation Journal of Inequalities and Applications Volume 2010, Article ID 915739, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2010/915739 Research Article Existence of Solutions and Nonnegative Solutions for Prescribed Variable Exponent. paper, we consider the existence of 2 Journal of Inequalities and Applications solutions and nonnegative solutions for the prescribed variable exponent mean curvature system − ϕ r, u