Existence Results for Classes of Sublinear Semipositone Problems
Document Type
Article
Department
Mathematics (HMC)
Publication Date
5-1993
Abstract
We consider the semipositone problem
−Δu(x) = λf(u(x)) ; x є Ω
u(x)=0 ; x є ∂Ω
where λ > 0 is a constant, Ω is a bounded region in R^n with a smooth boundary, and f is a smooth function such that f'(u) is bounded below, f(0) < 0 and lim u→+∞f(u)/u=0. We prove under some additional conditions the existence of a positive solution (1) for λ є I where I is an interval close to the smallest eigenvalue of -Δ with Dirichlet boundary condition and (2) for λ large. We also prove that our solution u for λ large is such that ||u|| := sup xєΩ |u(x)| → ∞ as A → ∞. Our methods are based on sub and super solutions. In particular, we use an anti maximum principle to obtain a subsolution for our existence result for λ є I.
Rights Information
© 1993 Birkhauser-Verlag
DOI
10.1007/BF03322297
Recommended Citation
Castro, Alfonso; Garner, J. B.; and Shivaji, Ratnasingham, "Existence Results for Classes of Sublinear Semipositone Problems" (1993). All HMC Faculty Publications and Research. 484.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmc_fac_pub/484
