Existence and multiplicity of positive solutions for Dirichlet problems in unbounded domains (Q2472065)

Summary: We consider the elliptic problem \(-\Delta u+u=b(x)|u|^{p-2}u+ h(x)\) in \(\Omega\), \(u\in H^1_0(\Omega)\), where \(2<p<(2N/(N-2))\) \((N\geq 3)\), \(2<p<\infty(N=2)\), \(\Omega\) is a smooth unbounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^N\), \(b(x)\in C(\Omega)\), and \(h(x)\in H^{-1} (\Omega)\). We use the shape of domain \(\Omega\) to prove that the above elliptic problem has a ground-state solution if the coefficient \(b(x)\) satisfies \(b(x)\to b^\infty>0\) as \(|x|\to\infty\) and \(b(x)\geq c\) for some suitable constants \(c\in(0,b^\infty)\), and \(h(x)\equiv 0\). Furthermore, we prove that the above elliptic problem has multiple positive solutions if the coefficient \(b(x)\) also satisfies the above conditions, \(h(x)\geq 0\) and \(0<\|h\|_{H^{-1}}<(p-2)(1/(p-1))^{(p-1)/(p-2)}[b_{\sup}S^p (\Omega)]^{1/(2-p)}\), where \(S(\Omega)\) is the best Sobolev constant of subcritical operator in \(H^1_0(\Omega)\) and \(b_{\sup}=\sup_{x\in \Omega}b(x)\).