We study the following singular elliptic equation with critical exponent ⎧$-\Delta u=Q\left(x\right)u^{2*-1}+\lambda u^{-\gamma }$ in Ω, ⎨u > 0 in Ω, ⎩u = 0 on ∂Ω, where $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$ (N≥3) is a smooth bounded domain, and λ > 0, γ ∈ (0,1) are real parameters. Under appropriate assumptions on Q, by the constrained minimizer and perturbation methods, we obtain two positive solutions for all λ > 0 small enough.

In this paper, we are interested in multiple positive solutions for the Kirchhoff type problem ⎧$-(a+b{\int }_{\Omega }\left|\nabla u\right|²dx)\Delta u=u⁵+\lambda u^{q-1}/{\left|x\right|}^{\beta }$ in Ω ⎨ ⎩ u = 0 on ∂Ω, where Ω ⊂ ℝ³ is a smooth bounded domain, 0∈Ω, 1 < q < 2, λ is a positive parameter and β satisfies some inequalities. We obtain the existence of a positive ground state solution and multiple positive solutions via the Nehari manifold method.

The paper deals with the study of a quasilinear elliptic equation involving the p-laplacian with a Hardy-type singular potential and a critical nonlinearity. Existence and nonexistence results are first proved for the equation with a concave singular term. Then we study the critical case related to Hardy inequality, providing a description of the behavior of radial solutions of the limiting problem and obtaining existence and multiplicity results for perturbed problems through variational...

We consider the following Kirchhoff type problem involving a critical nonlinearity: ⎧ $-[a+b({\int }_{\Omega }{\left|\nabla u\right|²dx)}^m{]\Delta u=f(x,u)+|u|}^{2*-2}u$ in Ω, ⎨ ⎩ u = 0 on ∂Ω, where $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$ (N ≥ 3) is a smooth bounded domain with smooth boundary ∂Ω, a > 0, b ≥ 0, and 0 < m < 2/(N-2). Under appropriate assumptions on f, we show the existence of a positive ground state solution via the variational method.

If $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^n$ is a bounded domain with Lipschitz boundary $\partial \Omega$ and $\Gamma$ is an open subset of $\partial \Omega$, we prove that the following inequality $${\left({\int }_{\Omega }{\left|A\left(x\right)\nabla u\left(x\right)\right|}^{p}dx\right)}^{1/p}+{\left({\int }_{\Gamma }{\left|u\left(x\right)\right|}^{p}d{\mathscr{H}}^{n-1}\left(x\right)\right)}^{1/p}\ge c{\parallel u\parallel }_{W^{1,p}\left(\Omega \right)}$$ holds for all $u\in W^{1,p}(\Omega ;{ℝ}^m)$ and $1<p<\infty$, where $${\left(A\left(x\right)\nabla u\left(x\right)\right)}_k=\sum _{i=1}^m\sum _{j=1}^n{a}_k^{ij}\left(x\right)\frac{\partial u_i}{\partial x_j}\left(x\right)(k=1,2,...,r;r\ge m)$$ defines an elliptic differential operator of first order with continuous coefficients on $\overline{\Omega }$. As a special case we obtain $${\int }_{\Omega }{\left|\nabla u\left(x\right)F\left(x\right)+{\left(\nabla u\left(x\right)F\left(x\right)\right)}^T\right|}^{p}dx\ge c{\int }_{\Omega }{\left|\nabla u\left(x\right)\right|}^{p}dx,(*)$$ for all $u\in W^{1,p}(\Omega ;{ℝ}^n)$ vanishing on $\Gamma$, where $F:\overline{\Omega }\to M^{n\times n}\left(ℝ\right)$ is a continuous mapping with $detF\left(x\right)\ge \mu >0$. Next we show that $(*)$ is not valid if $n\ge 3$, $F\in L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$ and $detF\left(x\right)=1$, but does hold if $p=2$, $\Gamma =\partial \Omega$ and $F\left(x\right)$ is symmetric and positive definite in $\Omega$.

We consider the existence of positive solutions of the singular nonlinear semipositone problem of the form $$\left\{\begin{array}{c}-{\mathrm{div}\left(\right|x|}^{-\alpha p}{\left|\nabla u\right|}^{p-2}{\nabla u)=|x|}^{-(\alpha +1)p+\beta }\left(a{u}^{p-1}-f\left(u\right)-{\displaystyle \frac{c}{u^{\gamma }}}\right),x\in \Omega ,\hfill \\ u=0,x\in \partial \Omega ,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded smooth domain of ${ℝ}^N$ with $0\in \Omega$, $1<p<N$, $0\le \alpha <(N-p)/p$, $\gamma \in (0,1)$, and $a$, $\beta$, $c$ and $\lambda$ are positive parameters. Here $f:[0,\infty )\to ℝ$ is a continuous function. This model arises in the studies of population biology of one species with $u$ representing the concentration of the species. We discuss the existence of a positive solution when $f$ satisfies certain additional conditions. We use the method of sub-supersolutions...