Logistic Dirichlet problems with discontinuous coefficients.

DOI10.1016/S0021-7824(03)00058-8MaRDI QIDQ1415334zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 3 December 2003

Published in Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. Neuvième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0021-7824(03)00058-8

diffusive logistic equation Dirichlet boundary condition indefinite weight function uniformly elliptic operator VMO coefficients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear boundary value problems for linear elliptic equations (35J65) Markov semigroups and applications to diffusion processes (47D07) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

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The author studies existence of positive solutions to semilinear Dirichlet eigenvalue problems for diffusive logistic equations with discontinuous coefficients which model population dynamics in environments with spatial heterogeneity. Precisely, let \(\Omega\subset {\mathbb R}^N,\) \(N\geq3,\) be a bounded and \(C^{1,1}\)-smooth domain and \[ {\mathcal L}:= -\sum_{i,j=1}^N a^{ij}(x){{\partial^2}\over{\partial x_i\partial x_j}} +\sum_{i=1}^N b^{i}(x){{\partial}\over{\partial x_i}} +c(x) \] a uniformly elliptic operator with \(a^{ij}\in VMO\cap L^\infty,\) \(b^i,\;c\in L^\infty,\) \(c(x)\geq0\) for almost all \(x\in\Omega.\) The paper deals with the problem \[ \begin{cases} {\mathcal L}u=\lambda\big(m(x)u-h(x)u^2\big) &\text{in}\;\Omega,\\ u=0 &\text{on}\;\partial\Omega, \end{cases} \] where \(\lambda>0\) is a parameter, \(m\in C(\overline\Omega)\) may change its sign in \(\Omega\) whereas \(h\in C(\overline\Omega)\) and \(h(x)>0\) in \(\overline\Omega.\) A complete study is carried out of the changes which occur in the global structure of positive solutions to the above Dirichlet problem as the parameter \(\lambda\) varies from the principal eigenvalue \(\lambda_1(m)\) of the linearized problem \[ \begin{cases} {\mathcal L}u=\lambda m(x)u &\text{in}\;\Omega,\\ u=0 &\text{on}\;\partial\Omega. \end{cases} \]

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