The moving plane method for singular semilinear elliptic problems

Singular Solutions for some Semilinear Elliptic Equations

We are concerned with the behavior of u near x = O. There are two distinct cases: 1) When p >= N / ( N -2) and (N ~ 3) it has been shown by BR~ZIS & V~RON [9] that u must be smooth at 0 (See also BARAS & PIERRE [1] for a different proof). In other words, isolated singularities are removable. 2) When 1-< p < N / ( N 2) there are solutions of (1) with a singularity at x ---0. Moreover all singula...

On a singular nonlinear semilinear elliptic problem

where K(x)μC2,b(V9 ), a, pμ(0, 1) and l is a real parameter. Such singular elliptic problems arise in the contexts of chemical heterogeneous catalysts, nonNewtonian fluids and also the theory of heat conduction in electrically conducting materials, see [3, 5, 8, 9] for a detailed discussion. Obviously (1.1) cannot have a solution uμC2(V9 ) if K(x) is not vanishing near ∂V. However, under variou...

Existence and Nonexistence of Positive Singular Solutions for Semilinear Elliptic Problems with Applications in Astrophysics

Existence and Nonexistence of Positive Solutions for Singular Semilinear Elliptic Boundary Value Problems

In this paper we study existence of positive solutions to singular elliptic boundary value problems involving divergence terms in general domains. By constructing suitable upper and lower solutions and making comparison, we obtain suucient conditions for existence and nonexistence of solutions. We also study a concrete example to show that the conditions imposed on parameters appearing in the s...

Compact Embeddings and Indefinite Semilinear Elliptic Problems

Our purpose is to find positive solutions u ∈ D(R ) of the semilinear elliptic problem −∆u = h(x)u for 2 < p. The function h may have an indefinite sign. Key ingredients are a h-dependent concentration-compactness Lemma and a characterization of compact embeddings of D(R ) into weighted Lebesgue spaces.