Infinitely many radial solutions for a \(p\)-Laplacian problem with indefinite weight (Q2042905)

This paper studies the quasilinear Dirichlet problem \[ \Delta_p u+W(x)g(u)=0 \text{ in }B_1(0)\subset\mathbb{R}^N,\quad u=0 \text{ on }\partial B_1(0), \] where \(N\ge 2\), \(p>1\), \(\Delta_p\) denotes the \(p\)-Laplacian operator, and \(B_1(0)\) denotes the unit ball in \(\mathbb{R}^N\) centered at the origin. Assuming that \(g\) is a non-decreasing locally Lipschitz continuous function and there exists \(C>0\) such that \[ |g(s)|\le C|s|^{p-1}\ \text{ for all }s\in [-1,\,1] \] and \[ \lim_{s\to \infty} \frac{g(s)}{|s|^{q_1-1}s}=A_1,\ \text{ and }\ \lim_{s\to -\infty} \frac{g(s)}{|s|^{q_2-1}s}=A_2, \] where \(q_1,q_2\in (p-1,\infty)\) and \(A_1,A_2\in (0,\infty)\), the authors obtain infinitely many sign changing radial solutions. The main difficulty lies in blow-up of the corresponding initial value problem near the boundary due to the fact that the weight function \(W(x)\) is negative at the boundary. To overcome this difficulty, a method is used connecting the solutions to a singular initial value problem with those of a regular initial value problem that vanishes at the boundary.