Non-existence and uniqueness results for supercritical semilinear elliptic equations (Q625070)

The authors extend the work of \textit{R. Schaaf} [Adv. Differ. Equ. 5, No.~10--12, 1201--1220 (2000; Zbl 0989.35056)] and \textit{K. Schmitt} [in: Topological methods in differential equations and inclusions. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute and séminaire de mathématiques supérieures on topological methods in differential equations and inclusions, Montréal, Canada, July 11--22, 1994. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. NATO ASI Ser., Ser. C, Math. Phys. Sci. 472, 447--500 (1995; Zbl 0846.35049)] to establish uniqueness of solutions obtained by bifurcation techniques. In this study there are given sufficient conditions for the uniqueness of solutions for problems \(\Delta u + \lambda f(u)=0\) and \(\Delta u + f(u+\mu) = 0\), as well as for nonlocal problems \(\Delta u + \kappa\frac{\lambda f(u)}{\int_\Omega f(u)\,dx} =0\) and \(\Delta u + f(u+\mu) = 0\), with a prescribed \(M = \int_\Omega f(u+\mu)\,dx\), set in a star-shaped domain \(\Omega\). The general idea behind this work is the fact that the Pohozaev technique (which has been used mainly to prove the non-existence of non-trivial solutions) actually establishes the uniqueness of the trivial solution.