Electron. J. Diff. Eqns., Vol. 2005(2005), No. 46, pp. 1-8.

Rectifiability of solutions of the one-dimensional p-Laplacian

Mervan Pasic

Abstract:
In the recent papers [8] and [10] a class of Caratheodory functions $f(t,\eta ,\xi )$ rapidly sign-changing near the boundary point $t=a$, has been constructed so that the equation $-(|y'|^{p-2}y')'=f(t,y,y')$ in $(a,b)$ admits continuous bounded solutions $y$ whose graphs $G(y)$ do not possess a finite length. In this paper, the same class of functions $-(|y'|^{p-2}y')'=f(t,y,y')$ will be given, but with slightly different input data compared to those from the previous papers, such that the graph $G(y)$ of each solution $y$ is a rectifiable curve in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$. Moreover, there is a positive constant which does not depend on $y$ so that $\mathop{\rm length}(G(y))\leq c$ less than $\infty $.

Submitted November 11, 2004. Published April 24, 2005.
Math Subject Classifications: 35J60, 34B15, 28A75.
Key Words: Nonlinear p-Laplacian; bounded continuous solutions; graph; qualitative properties; length; rectifiability.

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Mervan Pasic
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
University of Zagreb
Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
email: mervan.pasic@fer.hr

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