Positive solutions of quasilinear elliptic equations (Q5906365)

Using a fixed point index the author proves several existence theorems for positive solutions \(u\in D^{1,p}_0\) of the equation \[ -\text{div}(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)= \lambda a(x)| u|^{p- 2}u+ f(x,u,\lambda), \] where \(\Omega\) is an unbounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^N\) with smooth boundary, \(1<p<\infty\), \(D^{1,p}_0(\Omega)\) is the completion of \(C^\infty_0(\Omega)\) in the norm \(\| u\|= \left\{\int_\Omega|\nabla u|^p\right\}^{1/p}\), \(a(x)> 0\) with \(a\in L^\infty(\Omega)\cap L^1(\Omega)\), \(\lambda>0\) is a real parameter and \(f\) is a Carathéodory function satisfying certain growth and limiting conditions.