Structure of the positive solutions for supercritical elliptic equations in a ball (Q741491)

Let \(B\) be the unit ball in \({\mathbb R}^N\), \(N\geq 3\), and set \(p_:=(N+2)/(N-2)\). This paper is concerned with the structure of positive solutions of the semilinear elliptic equation \[ \Delta u+\lambda (u^p+g(u))=0,\quad x \in B, \] under the Dirichlet boundary condition \(u=0\) on \(\partial B\), where \(g(u)\) is a lower-order term. Let \(p_{JL}\) denote the Joseph-Lundgren exponent; namely, \(p_{JL}:=+\infty\) if \(2\leq N\leq 10\) and \[ p_{JL}:= 1+\frac{4}{N-4-2\sqrt{N-1}}\quad \text{if}\;N\geq 11. \] The main result of the present paper establishes that there is some \(\lambda^*>0\) such that the above problem has infinitely many turning points around \(\lambda^*\), provided that \({p_S<p<p_{JL}}\). The proof combines variational arguments, ordinary differential tools and the intersection number between regular and singular solutions.