Three positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations in the half space with a hole (Q860750)

Assuming that \(h\) is nonnegative and \(\|h\|_{L^2}>0\), we prove that if \(\|h\|_{L^2}\) is sufficiently small, then there are at least three positive solutions to the problem \[ -\Delta u+u=|u|^{p-2}u+h(z)\quad\text{ in }\Omega, \quad u\in H^1_0(\Omega),\tag{1} \] where \(\Omega={\mathbb R}_+^N\setminus\overline D\), \(D\) is a \(C^{1,1}\) bounded domain in \(\mathbb R_+^N\), \({2<p<2N/(n-2)}\), and \(N\geq 3\).