Blow-up rate of the unique solution for a class of one-dimensional equations with a weakly superlinear nonlinearity (Q343197)

The authors consider the exact blow-up rate of the unique solution \(u(t)\) at zero to the singular boundary value problem of the form \[ u^{''}(t)= b(t)f(u(t)) \] with \(u(t) > 0\), \(t > 0\), and \(u(0) = \infty, u(\infty) = 0\). It is assumed that the function \( b\) satisfies the condition \(b \in C^1(0,\infty)\), and it is positive and non-decreasing on \((0,\infty)\). In the literature one can get an adequate information for the exact blow-up rate of the unique solution to such problem at zero only when \(f(u)\) behaves like a function whose variation at infinity may be regular of index \(p > 1\) or rapid. It turns out that the case when \(f(u)\) grows more slowly than \(u^p\) (\(p > 1\)) at zero is more difficult to handle, since the blow-up behavior of the solution depends more subtly on the behavior of \(b(t)\) and \(f(u)\). In the main result of the paper (Theorem 1.1) the authors give the exact asymptotic behavior of the unique solution at zero for the weakly superlinear case of \(f \) and under some mild solution to the function \(b(t)\) of the form \(b(t)=\beta_2 k^2(t) + \gamma k^2(t) K^{2/\alpha-2} (t)\) with \(\beta_2 > 0\), \(\alpha > 2\) and \(\gamma \in R\).