Existence and uniqueness of fast decay entire solutions of quasilinear elliptic equations (Q1577658)

The author studies the existence and uniqueness of radial solutions to the elliptic equation \[ \text{div}(|\nabla u|^{m- 2}\nabla u)+ f(u)= 0 \] in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) with \(u> 0\) in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), \(u\to 0\) as \(|x|\to \infty\), and \(m> 1\), \(n> m\), \(f\in C^1\langle 0,\infty)\), \(f(0)= 0\), \(f(s)> 0\), \(f'(s)\geq 0\) on \((0,\xi)\) for some \(\xi> 0\). The proofs use only elementary arguments based on several variational identities and a maximum principle of \textit{L. A. Peletier} and \textit{J. Serrin} [J. Differ. Equations 61, 380-397 (1986; Zbl 0577.35035)].