A strong comparison principle for positive solutions of degenerate elliptic equations (Q5933784)

The authors present a strong comparison principle for the following class of quasilinear elliptic boundary-value problems \[ \begin{cases} -\text{div}(a(x,\nabla u))- b(x,u)= f(x)\quad\text{in }\Omega\\ u|_{\partial\Omega}= 0.\end{cases}\tag{1} \] More precisely, they investigate the validity of the strong comparison principle for nonnegative weak solutions \(u\in W^{1,p}_0(\Omega)\) to (1).