Special Session 73: 

Uniqueness of positive radial solutions for a class of infinite semipositone $p$-Laplacian problems in a ball

Ratnasingham Shivaji
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
USA
Co-Author(s):    K.D.Chu, D.D. Hai
Abstract:
We prove uniqueness of positive radial solutions to the p-Laplacian problem% \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{c} -\Delta _{p}u=\lambda f(u)\ \text{in }\Omega , \ u=0\ \text{on\ }\partial \Omega ,% \end{array}% \right. \end{equation*}% where $\Delta _p u=div(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u),~p\geq 2,~\Omega $ is the open unit ball in $R^{N},N>1,~ f:(0,\infty )\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is concave, $p~-$ sublinear at $\infty $ with infinite semipositone structure at $0,$ and $\lambda $ is a large parameter.