Existence of nodal fast-decay solutions to \(\text{div}(|\nabla u|^{m-2}\nabla u) + K(| x|)| u|^{q-1}u = 0\) in \(\mathbb{R}^ n\) (Q1916335)

The authors study the quasilinear elliptic equation \[ \text{div}(|\nabla u|^{m- 2} \nabla u)+ K(|x|) |u|^{q- 1} u= 0,\;x\in \mathbb{R}^n,\;\lim_{|x|\to \infty} |x|^{{n- m\over m- 1}} |u(|x|)|> 0, \] where \(1< m< n\), \(q> m- 1\), \(K(r)\in C^1((0, \infty))\) and \(K(r)> 0\) on \((0, \infty)\). They show the existence of radial solutions with prescribed numbers of zeros under simple conditions. These results are generalizations of those due to E. Yanagida and S. Yotsutani, and Y. Naito for \(m= 2\), but the proofs are considerably different from their even if \(m= 2\). Finally, they consider various further boundary problems with similar results.