The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics Advance Access published online on December 12, 2007
The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, doi:10.1093/qmath/ham047
ASYMPTOTICALLY LINEAR ELLIPTIC PROBLEM ON
N

Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 71010, Wuhan 430071, P. R. China
Corresponding author. E-mail: hszhou{at}wipm.ac.cn
Received 21 February 2007;
revised 9 August 2007
| Abstract |
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In this paper, we consider the following semilinear elliptic problem:
where f(x, t) tends to p(x) and q(x)
L
(
N), respectively, as t
0 and t
+
. We prove that there exist two numbers l and L with L < l such that problem (P) has at least one positive solution for
(–l, –L) and has no positive solution for all
[–l,–L]. The existence and non-existence of positive solutions for problem (P) at
= –l and
= –L are also discussed.