Positive weak solutions for some semilinear elliptic equations (Q1348201)

Existence of positive weak solutions (in the Sobolev space \(H^1_0)\) to some semilinear elliptic equations of logistic type is proved. The main existence results follow from an abstract theorem (Theorem 1) on existence of maximal fixed points in ordered Banach spaces. Then the existence of greatest and minimal weak solutions in the set \(\{u\geq u_0\}\) is proved, where \(u_0\) is a subsolution of the elliptic problem \(-\Delta u=f(x,u)\) in \(D\), \(u=0\) on \(\partial D\), \(D\) a bounded domain, and \(f\) is a nonlinearity satisfying suitable conditions, in particular the boundedness of the set of subsolutions \(\geq u_0\). Applications to some logistic equations with unbounded weights are given, extending previous work by this reviewer.