Uniqueness of positive radial solutions for semilinear elliptic equations on annular domains (Q5935347)

The authors study the semilinear Dirichlet boundary value problem \[ \bigtriangleup u+f(u)=0 \text{ in} \;\Omega,\quad u=0 \text{ on} \;\partial \Omega, \tag{1} \] where \(\Omega\) is an annular domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), \(n\geq 3\). They are interested in the existence of a unique positive radial solution to (1), and they prove sufficient conditions for existence and uniqueness. Particularly, they discuss the case \(f(u)=-u+u^p\), \(3\leq n \leq 5\) and \(1<p\leq \text{ min}(4/(n-2), n/(n-2))\). In this way, they get a uniqueness result that extends Coffman's one which was reached for \(n=3\) and \(1<p\leq 3\).