Nodal solutions for an elliptic problem involving large nonlinearities (Q952528)

This paper considers the problem \[ \left\{ \begin{matrix} -\Delta u+a(| x| )u=| u| ^{p-1}u, & \text{in}\;B_1 \\ u=0, & \text{on}\;\partial B_1\end{matrix} \right. \] where \(B_1\) is the unit ball in \(\mathbb{R}^N\), \(N\geq 3\), and \(a(| x| ) \geq 0\) is a smooth radial function. The authors prove the existence of nodal solution for \(p\) large enough under some suitable assumptions on the regular part of the Green function of the operator \(-u''-\frac{N-1}{r}u+a(r)u\) by using some technique and careful computations.