Influence of nonlinear perturbed terms on the oscillation of elliptic equations (Q4813638)

The authors consider the semilinear elliptic equation \[ \Delta u+ p(x)u+\varphi (x,u)=0\tag{1} \] in an unbounded domain \(\Omega\) containing \(G_a=\{x\in\mathbb{R}^N \mid|x|>a\}\) for some \(a>0\) and \(N\geq 3\). They assume that \(p:\Omega\to [0, \infty)\) and \(\varphi:\Omega \times\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}\) are locally Hölder continuous with exponent \(\alpha\in(0,1)\). The main goal of the authors is to prove a solution for (1). To this end they use ``supersolution-subsolution'' as well as some results related to the oscillation and nonoscillation of solutions of the ordinary differential equation associated with (1). An example is given illustrating the main results.