PROFILE OF SOLUTIONS WITH SHARP LAYERS TO SOME SINGULARLY PERTURBED QUASILINEAR DIRICHLET PROBLEMS (Q4474399)

The authors study the singularly perturbed quasilinear elliptic Dirichlet problem \[ \begin{cases} \varepsilon\Delta_p u+ f(u)= 0 &\text{in }\Omega,\\ u> 0 &\text{in }\Omega,\\ u= 0 &\text{on }\partial\Omega,\end{cases} \] where \(p> 1\), \(\varepsilon> 0\), \(\Delta_p u= \text{div}(| Du|^{p-2} Du)\) and \(\Omega\) is a bounded smooth domain in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) \((d\geq 2)\) with \(0\in\Omega\). Under convexity assumptions on \(\Omega\) and a suitable assumptions on \(f\), the authors show the existence and intermediate positive solution \(u_\varepsilon\) (intermediate means between a small solution \(\underline u_\varepsilon\) and a large solution \(\overline u_\varepsilon\)), when \(\varepsilon\) is sufficiently small. To this end they use the mountain pass lemma and study the structure of this solution.