Nonlinear elliptic equations with singular reaction (Q294173)

The paper proves the existence of two positive solutions for a differential equation involving an elliptic operator which is not necessarily homogeneous, a singular term and a perturbation. The considered operators include as special cases the \(p\)-Laplacian \((1<p<\infty)\), the \((p,q)\)-differential operator \((1<q<p<\infty, p\geq 2)\) and the \(p\)-mean curvature operator \((2\leq p<\infty)\). The first multiplicity result (Theorem 7) holds true when the coefficient in front of the singular term is small and the perturbation is positive and \(p-1\) superlinear at infinity (in a larger sense than the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition, allowing also slower growth near infinity). Two other multiplicity results are related to the specific (homogeneous) case of the \(p\)-Laplacian, but without the hypothesis on the smallness of the singular term: one (Theorem 9) involves the same perturbations as in the previous case, while the other one (Theorem 8) considers \(p-1\) sublinear at infinity, not necessarily positive perturbations. In all the cases, one solution is obtained by minimizing the energy functional, while the other one thanks to the mountain pass theorem. Truncation and comparison techniques are also applied.