Existence and Nonexistence of Positive Solutions of Indefinite Elliptic Problems in ℝ^N

Abstract: Our purpose is to find positive solutions

u i n D^{1, 2} (z^{N})

of the semilinear elliptic problem

- l a p l a c e u - l a m b d a V (x) u = h (x) u^{p - 1}

for

2 < p

. The functions

V

and

h

may have an indefinite sign and the linearized operator need not to have a first (principal) eigenvalue, e.g. we allow

V e q u i v 1

. We give precise existence and nonexistence criteria, which depend on

l a m b d a

and on the growth of

h^{-}

and

h^{+} / V^{+}

. Existence theorems are obtained by constrained minimization. The mountain pass theorem leads to a second solution.

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