Positive solutions of an elliptic Neumann problem with a sublinear indefinite nonlinearity

DOI10.1007/S00030-018-0502-1zbMATH Open1391.35159arXiv1705.07791OpenAlexW2618938436MaRDI QIDQ1635643FDOQ1635643

Humberto Ramos Quoirin, U. Kaufmann, K. Umezu

Publication date: 31 May 2018

Published in: NoDEA. Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $Omegasubsetmathbb{R}^N$ ($Ngeq1$) be a bounded and smooth domain and $a:OmegaightarrowmathbbR$ be a sign-changing weight satisfying $in{t}_{Omega}a<0$. We prove the existence of a positive solution $u_q$ for the problem $(P_{a,q})$: $-Deltau=a(x)u^q$ in $Omega$, $fracpartialupartialu=0$ on $partialOmega$, if $q_0<q<1$, for some $q_0=q_0(a)>0$. In doing so, we improve the existence result previously established in [16]. In addition, we provide the asymptotic behavior of $u_q$ as $qightarrow{1}^{-}$. When $Omega$ is a ball and $a$ is radial, we give some explicit conditions on $q$ and $a$ ensuring the existence of a positive solution of $(P_{a,q})$. We also obtain some properties of the set of $q$'s such that $(P_{a,q})$ admits a solution which is positive on $overlineOmega$. Finally, we present some results on nonnegative solutions having dead cores. Our approach combines bifurcation techniques, a priori bounds and the sub-supersolution method. Several methods and results apply as well to the Dirichlet counterpart of $(P_{a,q})$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07791

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zbMATH Keywords

positive solutionsemilinear equation with Laplacian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Positive solutions to PDEs (35B09) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Semilinear elliptic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian (35J91)

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