Multiplicity of bounded solutions to the \(k\)-Hessian equation with a Matukuma-type source (Q2280502)

Summary: The aim of this paper is to deal with the \(k\)-Hessian counterpart of the Laplace equation involving a nonlinearity studied by Matukuma. Namely, our model is the problem \[(1)\quad\begin{cases} S_k(D^2u)= \lambda \,\frac{|x|^{\mu-2}}{(1+|x|^2)^{{\mu}/{2}}} \,(1-u)^q &\text{in } B,\\ u < 0 & \text{in } B,\\ u=0 &\text{on }\partial B, \end{cases}\] where \(B\) denotes the unit ball in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), \(n > 2k\) (\(k\in\mathbb{N}\)), \(\lambda > 0\) is an additional parameter, \(q > k\) and \(\mu\geq 2\). In this setting, through a transformation recently introduced by two of the authors that reduces problem (1) to a non-autonomous two-dimensional generalized Lotka-Volterra system, we prove the existence and multiplicity of solutions for the above problem combining dynamical-systems tools, the intersection number between a regular and a singular solution and the super and subsolution method.