Entire large solutions to elliptic equations of power non-linearities with variable exponents (Q2866675)

The authors solve the question of the existence of a positive solution to the problem NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\Delta u = u^{q(x)}\;\text{in}\;\mathbb{R}^N;\;u(x)\to \infty\;\text{as}\;|x|\to \infty.NEWLINE\]NEWLINE This solution is called an entire large solution. Here \(N\geq 3\) and \(q:\mathbb{R}^N\to [0,\infty)\) is locally Hölder continuous. They prove the existence for \(q>1\) provided that \(q(x)\) decays to unity rapidly as \(|x|\to \infty\) . The case \(q\leq 1\) is considered as a special case of \(q-1\) changing signs. The solution exists provided \(q\) is asymptotically radial.