Positive solutions for Dirichlet problems involving the mean curvature operator in Minkowski space (Q667811)

The paper deals with the Dirichlet boundary value problem \[ \begin{aligned} -\mathcal{M}y & =\lambda a(|x|)f(y)\text{ in }B(b),\\ y & =0\text{ on }\partial B(b), \end{aligned}\leqno(P) \] where \(\mathcal{M}y:=\operatorname{div}\left(\frac{\nabla y}{\sqrt{1-|\nabla y|^2}}\right)\), \(b>0\), \(B(b)=\{x\in\mathbb{R}^N, \ |x|<b\}\), \(\lambda>0\) is a sufficiently small parameter, \(f:[0,\infty)\to\mathbb{R}\) is a continuous function, and \(a:[0,b]\to\mathbb{R}\) is a nontrivial continuous function which changes sign. The author proves the existence of classical positive radial solutions for \((P)\) by reducing this problem to a mixed boundary value problem for an ordinary differential equation and by using the Leray-Schauder fixed point theorem.