Boundary blow-up solutions to degenerate elliptic equations with non-monotone inhomogeneous terms (Q765258)

The authors study the following problem: \(\Delta_{\infty} u = h(x,u)\) in \(\Omega\), with \(\Omega\) a bounded domain in \({\mathbb R}^n\), \(n \geqslant 2\), with the boundary conditions \(u(x) \to \infty\) when \(x \to \partial \Omega\). Here \(h\) is a continuous function defined in \(\overline\Omega \times [0, + \infty)\). In a previous paper [Nonlinear Anal., Theory Methods Appl., Ser. A, Theory Methods 74, No. 16, 5238--5252 (2011; Zbl 1223.35141)], the same authors studied the problem with the condition \(h(x,0) \equiv 0\) in \(\overline\Omega\) and \(h(x,t)\) non-decreasing in \(t\) with the additional assumption that \(h(x,t) > 0\) for every \(t \not= 0\), i.e. \(t > 0\). In this paper they study the problem without requiring any monotonicity or positivity condition on \(h\) and maintaining the condition \(h(x,0) \equiv 0\) in \(\overline\Omega\). They give two results, an existence result (of non-negative solutions) to the problem, and a non-existence result (of continuous solutions) under suitable conditions on \(h\).