Positive radial solutions for the Minkowski-curvature equation with Neumann boundary conditions

Methods of ordinary differential equations applied to PDEs (35A24) Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Positive solutions to PDEs (35B09) Quasilinear elliptic equations (35J62)

Abstract: We analyze existence, multiplicity and oscillatory behavior of positive radial solutions to a class of quasilinear equations governed by the Lorentz-Minkowski mean curvature operator. The equation is set in a ball or an annulus of

m a t h b b R^{N}

, is subject to homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions, and involves a nonlinear term on which we do not impose any growth condition at infinity. The main tool that we use is the shooting method for ODEs.

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The paper investigates positive radial solutions to the Neumann boundary value problem \[ \begin{cases} - \mathrm{div} \left( \dfrac{\nabla u}{\sqrt{1-|\nabla u|^{2}}} \right) = f(u), & \text{ in }\Omega,\\ \partial_{\nu} u = 0, & \text{ on }\partial\Omega, \end{cases} \] where \(\Omega\subseteq \mathbb{R}^{N}\) is either an open annulus or an open ball. The nonlinear term \(f\colon[0,+\infty[\to\mathbb{R}\) is a continuously differentiable function such that \(f(0)=f(s_{0})=0\), \(f(s)<0\) for \(0<s<s_{0}\), and \(f(s)>0\) for \(s>s_{0}\). Using a shooting method for ODEs, the authors analyse the existence, the multiplicity and the oscillatory behaviour of positive radial solutions (see Theorem 1.1 for the precise statement). It is interesting to remark that the presence of the Lorentz-Minkowski mean curvature operator allows to avoid growth assumptions on the nonlinearity \(f\), which are necessary, on the contrary, when dealing with the Laplacian or the \(p\)-Laplacian differential operators.

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