\(S\)-shaped connected component of radial positive solutions for a prescribed mean curvature problem in an annular domain (Q2278420)

In this paper, the authors consider the problem \[ -\text{div}(\varphi_{N}(\nabla y))=\lambda a(|x|)f(y) \text{ in } A, ((\partial y)/(\partial v))=0 \text{ on } \Gamma_1, y=0 \text{ on } \Gamma_2, \] where \(\varphi_{N}(s)=(s/(\sqrt{(1-|s|^2)}))\), \(s\in\mathbb{R}^{N}\), \(A=\{x\in\mathbb{R}^{N}:R_1<|x|<R_2\}\), \(\Gamma_1=\{x\in\mathbb{R}^{N}:|x|=R_1\}\), \(\Gamma_2=\{x\in\mathbb{R}^{N}:|x|=R_2\}\), \(\lambda>0\), \(a\in C[R_1,R_2]\), \(f\in C[0,\infty)\), \(R_1\in(0,R_2)\), \(R_2\in(0,\infty)\) and \(((\partial y)/(\partial v))\) is the outward normal derivative of \(y\). The authors prove the existence of an \(S\)-shaped connected component in the set of radial positive solutions.