Finite energy solutions of quasilinear elliptic equations with sub-natural growth terms (Q2017807)

The authors give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a nontrivial solution of \[ -\Delta_p u = \sigma u^q \text{ in } \mathbb R^n, \quad u \geq 0 \text{ on } \mathbb R^n, \] where \(1<p<\infty\), \(0<q<p-1\) and \(\sigma\) is a nonnegative measure on \(\mathbb R^n\). More precisely, it is proved that if \(1<p<n\) then the problem above admits a unique nontrivial solution if and only if the problem \[ -\Delta_p U = \sigma \text{ in } \mathbb R^n, \quad\inf_{\mathbb R^n} U = 0 \] admits a solution in \(L^{\frac{(1+q)(p-1)}{p-1-q}} (\mathbb R^n, d\sigma)\). In the case \(p\geq n\) it only admits the trivial solution.