Ground state solution for a problem with mean curvature operator in Minkowski space (Q2452477)

In this paper the following quasilinear equation is studied \[ \begin{cases} \nabla\cdot \left[{\nabla u\over \sqrt{1-|\nabla u|^2}}\right]+f(u)=0, & x\in\mathbb{R}^N, \\ u(x)>0, & \text{ in } \mathbb{R}^N, N\geq 2, \\ u(x)\rightarrow 0, & \text{ as } |x|\rightarrow \infty. \end{cases} \] The differential operator involved in this equation is known as the mean curvature operator in the Minkowski space. The author shows that this equation has a radially decreasing solution under the following conditions on the function \(f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\). {\parindent=8mm \begin{itemize}\item[(f1)] \(f(0)=0\), \item[(f2)] \(f\) is locally Lipschitz in \([0,+\infty)\), \item[(f3)] \(\alpha=\inf\{\xi>0 \mid f(\xi)\geq 0\}>0\), \item[(f4)] \(\lim_{s\rightarrow \alpha^+}{f(s)\over s-\alpha}>0\) in the case \(N\geq 3\), \item[(f5)] \(\exists \gamma>0\) such that \(F(\gamma)=\int_0^{\gamma}f(s)ds>0\), \item[(f6)] \(f(\xi)>0\) in \((\alpha, \xi_0]\) where \(\xi_0=\inf\{\xi>0\mid F(\xi)>0\}\). \end{itemize}}