Existence and global asymptotic behavior of singular positive solutions for radial Laplacian (Q2631898)

Summary: The aim of this paper is to establish existence and uniqueness of a positive continuous solution to the following singular nonlinear problem \[- t^{1-n} (t^{n-1} u')' = a(t) u^\sigma,\, t \in(0,1), \] \[ \lim_{t \rightarrow 0} t^{n-1} u'(t) = 0,\, u(1)=0, \] where \(n \geq 3\), \(\sigma < 1,\) and \(a\) denotes a nonnegative continuous function that might have the property of being singular at \(t = 0\) and /or \(t = 1\) and which satisfies certain condition associated to Karamata class. We emphasize that the nonlinearity might also be singular at \(u = 0\), while the solution could blow-up at \(0\). Our method is based on the global estimates of potential functions and the Schauder fixed point theorem.