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September  2018, 17(5): 1765-1783. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018084

## Positive radial solutions of a nonlinear boundary value problem

 1 Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Casilla 307, Correo 2, Santiago, Chile 2 Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Av. Espana 1680, Casilla 110-V, Valparaíso, Chile 3 Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá Casilla 7-D, Arica, Chile

Received  May 2017 Revised  January 2018 Published  April 2018

In this work we study the following quasilinear elliptic equation:
 $\left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}{l}}{ - {\rm{div}}(\frac{{|x{|^\alpha }\nabla u}}{{{{(a(|x|) + g(u))}^\gamma }}}) = |x{|^\beta }{u^p}}&{{\rm{in}} \ \Omega }\\{u = 0}&{{\rm{on}}\;\;\;\;\partial \Omega }\end{array}} \right.$
where
 $a$
is a positive continuous function,
 $g$
is a nonnegative and nondecreasing continuous function,
 $Ω = B_R$
, is the ball of radius
 $R>0$
centered at the origin in
 $\mathbb{R} ^N$
,
 $N≥3$
and, the constants
 $α,β∈\mathbb{R}$
,
 $γ∈(0,1)$
and
 $p>1$
.
We derive a new Liouville type result for a kind of "broken equation". This result together with blow-up techniques, a priori estimates and a fixed-point result of Krasnosel'skii, allow us to ensure the existence of a positive radial solution. In this paper we also obtain a non-existence result, proven through a variation of the Pohozaev identity.
Citation: Patricio Cerda, Leonelo Iturriaga, Sebastián Lorca, Pedro Ubilla. Positive radial solutions of a nonlinear boundary value problem. Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis, 2018, 17 (5) : 1765-1783. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018084
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