Existence of blow-up solutions of semilinear elliptic problems (Q2511723)

The authors consider boundary nonlinear elliptic problems in a smooth bounded domain in \(\mathbb R^N\). A nonlinear gradient term and unbounded weights near the boundary are also assumed. The solutions to these problems are referred to as boundary blow-up solutions. Under suitable assumptions on the reaction terms, the existence of at least one solution is obtained. The first class of problems contemplated by the authors treats elliptic equations with positive or null gradient term. These are approached via an auxiliary problem for which existence and uniqueness is obtained using Schauder's fixed-point Theorem and comparison principle. A priori estimates are then used to get convergence of the approximating solutions. For the problem with negative nonlinear gradient term, the sub-supersolution method is invoked.