On the global structure of the set of positive solutions for some quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems (Q5953921)

This paper deals with the study of the structure of positive solutions of \[ \begin{cases} -\text{div} \bigl(|Du|^{p-2} Du\bigr)=\lambda f(u) \quad &\text{in }\Omega\\ u=0\quad &\text{on }\partial\Omega,\end{cases} \tag{1} \] where \(p>1\), \(\Omega\) is a bounded smooth domain of \(\mathbb{R}^N\), \(N\geq 1\) and nonlinearity \(f\) satisfies some natural assumptions. Under some ``monotonicity'' assumption on \(f\) the authors prove existence of at most one positive solution of (1), that is a uniqueness result.