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Compactly supported solutions for a semilinear elliptic problem in ℝn with sign-changing function and non-Lipschitz nonlinearity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2011

Qiuping Lu
Affiliation:
Centro de Modelamiento Matemático, Av. Blanco Encalada 2120, Santiago, Chile (qlu@dim.uchile.cl)
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Abstract

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For a sign-changing function a(x) we consider the solutions of the following semilinear elliptic problem in ℝn with n ≥ 3:

where γ > 0 and 0 < q < 1 < p < (n + 2)/(n − 2). Under an appropriate growth assumption on a at infinity, we show that all solutions are compactly supported. When Ω+ = {x ∈ ℝn | a(x) > 0} has several connected components, we prove that there exists an interval on γ in which the solutions exist. In particular, if a(x) = a(|x|), by applying the mountain-pass theorem there are at least two solutions with radial symmetry that are positive in Ω+.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2011