Qualitative properties of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations in symmetric domains via the maximum principle (Q1303789)

The authors study some properties of the solutions of the problem \[ -\Delta u + \lambda u = f(u),\quad u > 0 \text{ in }\Omega,\quad u = 0 \text{ in } \partial \Omega, \] in a bounded symmetric domain \(\Omega\) using a maximum principle argument and some properties of the solution of the corresponding linearized problem, i.e. relative to the operator \[ L \equiv \Delta +\lambda + f'(u). \]