Positive Solutions of $p$-th Yamabe Type Equations on Graphs

TL;DR

This paper proves the existence of positive solutions for a class of $p$-th Yamabe type equations on finite graphs, extending previous results and introducing a new approach applicable to broader parameter ranges.

Contribution

The authors develop a new method to establish positive solutions for $p$-th Yamabe equations on graphs, generalizing prior work to include cases where $1\, extless=\alpha\ extless= p$.

Findings

Existence of positive solutions for the equation on finite graphs.

Generalization of previous results to broader parameter ranges.

The new approach is applicable even when $ ext{alpha} \,\geq\, p > 1$.

Abstract

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a finite connected weighted graph, and assume $1\leq\alpha\leq p\leq q$. In this paper, we consider the following $p$-th Yamabe type equation $$-\Delta_pu+hu^{q-1}=\lambda fu^{\alpha-1}.$$ on $G$, where $\Delta_p$ is the $p$-th discrete graph Laplacian, $h\leq0$ and $f>0$ are real functions defined on all vertices of $G$. Instead of the approach in [Ge3], we adopt a new approach, and prove that the above equation always has a positive solution $u>0$ for some constant $\lambda\in\mathbb{R}$. In particular, when $q=p$ our result generalizes the main theorem in [Ge3] from the case of $\alpha\geq p>1$ to the case of $1\leq\alpha\leq p$. It's interesting that our new approach can also work in the case of $\alpha\geq p>1$.