Generalized Harnack inequality for semilinear elliptic equations (Q311160)

In this paper, the author studies non-negative solutions of the equation \[ \operatorname{div}(A(x)Du) = f(u). \] The coefficient matrix \(A(x)\) is assumed to besymmetric, measurable and satisfying an uniform ellipticity condition, the function \(f\) is non-negative and non-decreasing. The author proves a sharp Harnack type inequality for non-negative solutions which is a quantified version of the condition for strong maximum principle found by Vazquez and Pucci-Serrin and is related to the classical Keller-Osserman condition for the existence of entire solutions. The proof is rather technical and it is based on ideas introduced by the same author and on a smart revisiting of the proof of the classical Harnack inequality by Di Benedetto-Trudinger.