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The validity of the weak and strong comparison principles for degenerate parabolic partial differential equations with the p-Laplace operator p is investigated for p > 2. This problem is reduced to the comparison of the trivial solution (≡ 0, by hypothesis) with a nontrivial nonnegative solution u(x, t). The problem is closely related also to the question of uniqueness of a nonnegative solution via the weak comparison principle. In this article, realistic counterexamples to the uniqueness of a nonnegative solution, the weak comparison principle, and the strong maximum principle are constructed with a nonsmooth reaction function that satisfies neither a Lipschitz nor an Osgood standard "uniqueness" condition. Nonnegative multi-bump solutions with spatially disconnected compact supports and zero initial data are constructed between sub-and supersolutions that have supports of the same type.

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We are interested in a nonlinear boundary value problem for(|u″|p−2u″)′​′=λ|u|p−2uin[0,1],p>1, with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. We prove that eigenvalues of the Dirichlet problem are positive, simple, and isolated, and form an increasing unbounded sequence. An eigenfunction, corresponding to thenth eigenvalue, has preciselyn−1zero points in(0,1). Eigenvalues of the Neumann problem are nonnegative and isolated,0is an eigenvalue which is not simple, and the positive eigenvalues are simple and they form an increasing unbounded sequence. An eigenfunction, corresponding to thenth positive eigenvalue, has preciselyn+1zero points in(0,1).

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