Exact number of positive solutions for a class of quasilinear boundary value problems with a singular nonlinearity (Q2839828)

The authors consider a class of quasilinear boundary value problems with a singular nonlinearity NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\begin{aligned} &-(\varphi_p (u'))'=\lambda (u^q-u^{-\alpha}), \;\;x\in(0,1),\\ &u(0)=u(1)=0, \end{aligned}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\varphi_p (y)=|y|^{p-2}y\), \(y\in \mathbb{R}\), \(p>1\), and \(-1<\alpha<q<p-1\). \(\lambda\) is a positive parameter. Using the time-mapping approach, they obtain the exact multiplicity of positive solutions of the above problem.