Positive solutions for singular \((p,2)\)-equations (Q2421798)

The authors consider the following nonlinear, nonparametric singular Dirichlet problem: \[ -\operatorname{div}(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u(z)) - \Delta u(z) = \mu(u(z)) + f(z, u(z)) \text{ in } \Omega, \ \ u|_{\partial \Omega} =0, \ p>2,\tag{P} \] where \(\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N\) is a bounded smooth domain, the function \(\mu(\cdot)\) is singular at \(x = 0\), \(f(z, x)\) is a Carathéodory function and of \((p-1)\)-superlinear growth with respect to \(x\) near \(+\infty\) but the so called Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition may fail. Under some further conditions on \(f(z, x)\), the existence of a pair of positive smooth solutions is obtained for problem (P) by combining variational methods and some truncation techniques.