Special Session 74: Recent Advances in Local and Non-local Elliptic PDEs

Semilinear elliptic boundary value problems on the exterior of a ball in $R^{n}$, $n \\geq 2$

Lakshmi Sankar Kalappattil
Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
India
Co-Author(s):    Anumol Joseph
Abstract:
We consider problems of the form, $\begin{equation} \begin{cases} - \Delta u &= \lambda K(x) f(u) \mbox { in } B_1^c, \ u(x)&=0 \mbox { on } \partial B_1, \ \end{cases} \end{equation}$ where $B_1 ^c = \{ x\in \mathbb{R}^n: |x|>1 \}, n \geq 2$, $\lambda$ is a positive parameter, and $K: B_1 ^c \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}$, $f:(0,\infty) \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ belong to classes of continuous functions with $K$ satisfying certain decay assumptions. For various classes of reaction terms and non radial weight functions, we will discuss the existence of positive solutions to such problems.