A note on the bifurcation of solutions for an elliptic sublinear problem (Q2568692)

Let \(\Omega\) be a smooth bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^N\). This paper is devoted to the study of positive solutions to the semilinear bifurcation problem \(Lu+u^\theta =\lambda u\) in \(\Omega\), under the Dirichlet boundary condition \(u=0\) on \(\partial\Omega\), where \(0<\theta<1\) and \(L\) is a coercive linear differential operator. Let \(\lambda_1\) denote the first eigenvalue of \(L\) in \(H^1_0(\Omega)\). The main result of the paper asserts that for any \(\lambda>\lambda_1\), the above considered problem admits a solution \(u_\lambda\in H^1_0(\Omega)\) which, moreover, is a critical point of Mountain Pass type of the associated energy functional. The asymptotic behaviour of \(u_\lambda\) is given by \(\lim_{\lambda\rightarrow +\infty}\|u_\lambda\|_{H^1_0(\Omega)}=0\). The proof combines various interesting variational arguments.