Existence and multiplicity of positive solutions for singular \(p\)-Laplacian equations (Q2471509)

Summary: Positive solutions are obtained for the boundary value problem \[ \begin{cases} -\Delta_pu= \lambda \bigl(u^\beta+ \frac{1}{u^\alpha}\bigr) &\text{in }\Omega,\\ u>0&\text{in }\Omega, \\ u=0&\text{on }\partial \Omega, \end{cases}\tag \(*\) \] where \(\Delta_pu= \text{div}(|\nabla u|^{p-2} \nabla u)\), \(1<p<N\), \(N\geq 3\), \(\Omega\subset\mathbb R^N\) is a bounded domain, \(0<\alpha<1\) and \(p-1<\beta< p^*-1\) \((p^*= \frac{Np}{N-p})\) are two constants, \(\lambda>0\) is a real parameter. We prove that the problem \((*)\) has two positive weakly solutions if \(\lambda\) is small enough.