Existence and Regularizing Effect of Degenerate Lower Order Terms in Elliptic Equations Beyond the Hardy Constant

In this paper, we study the regularizing effect of lower order terms in elliptic problems involving a Hardy potential. Concretely, our model problem is the differential equation-\Delta u+h(x)|u|^{p-1}u=\lambda\frac{u}{|x|^{2}}+f(x)\quad\text{in }\Omega,with Dirichlet boundary condition on {\partial\Omega}, where {p>1} and {f\in L^{m}_{h}(\Omega)} (i.e. {|f|^{m}h\in L^{1}(\Omega)}) with {m\geq\frac{p+1}{p}}. We prove that there is a solution of the above problem even for λ greater than the Hardy constant; i.e., {\lambda\geq\mathcal{H}=\frac{(N-2)^{2}}{4}} and nonnegative functions {h\in L^{1}(\Omega)} which could vanish in a subset of Ω. Moreover, we show that all the solutions are in {L^{pm}_{h}(\Omega)}. These results improve and generalize the case {h(x)\equiv h_{0}} treated in [2, 10].