Existence of radial solutions with prescribed number of zeros for elliptic equations and their Morse index (Q719224)

The authors study subcritical problems \[ -\Delta u = f(x,u), \tag{pr} \] with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions, where \(\Omega\) is a ball in \(\mathbb{R}^N\) with \(N\geq 3\). In the case of autonomous equations (\(f(x,u)=f(u)\)) and for nonlinearities \(f(x,u) = K(|x|)|u|^{p-2}u\) the authors discuss the relations between the existence and uniqueness of radial solutions with a prescribed number of nodes (zeros) and their Morse index in the space of radial functions.