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Keywords:
population biology; infinite semipositone; sub-supersolution
Summary:
We consider the existence of positive solutions of the singular nonlinear semipositone problem of the form $$\begin {cases} -{\rm div}(|x|^{-\alpha p}|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)=|x|^{-(\alpha +1)p+\beta } \Big (a u^{p-1}-f(u)-\dfrac {c}{u^{\gamma }}\Big ), \quad x\in \Omega ,\\ u=0, \quad x\in \partial \Omega , \end {cases}$$ where $\Omega$ is a bounded smooth domain of ${\mathbb R}^N$ with $0\in \Omega$, $1<p<N$, $0\leq \alpha < {(N-p)}/{p}$, $\gamma \in (0,1)$, and $a$, $\beta$, $c$ and $\lambda$ are positive parameters. Here $f\colon [0,\infty )\to {\mathbb R}$ 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 to establish our results.
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