Solutions of superlinear elliptic equations and their Morse indices. I, II (Q1974839)

The first part of this work deals with the study of solutions for a nonlinear elliptic subcritical problem in the whole space. Using the Gidas-Ni-Nirenberg theorem, the authors prove the existence of solutions with finite Morse index. The second part of the work is devoted to a class of superlinear subcritical elliptic equations on a bounded domain \(\Omega\). The main result establishes that a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a sequence of bounded solutions in \(L^\infty (\Omega)\) is that the corresponding Morse indices are uniformly bounded. The proofs are based on previous methods developed by Bahri and they also make use of Harnack-type inequalities, barrier functions, Pohozaev identities, and variational methods.