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

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)

Abstract: Let

O m e g a s u b s e t m a t h b b R^{N}

(

N g e q 1

) be a bounded and smooth domain and

a : O m e g a i g h t a r r o w m a t h b b R

be a sign-changing weight satisfying

i n t_{O m e g a} a < 0

. We prove the existence of a positive solution

u_{q}

for the problem

(P_{a, q})

:

- D e l t a u = a (x) u^{q}

in

O m e g a

,

f r a c p a r t i a l u p a r t i a l u = 0

on

p a r t i a l O m e g a

, 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

q i g h t a r r o w 1^{-}

. When

O m e g a

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

o v e r l i n e O m e g a

. 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})

.

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