Positive radial solutions for the Minkowski-curvature equation with Neumann boundary conditions

Abstract

We analyze existence, multiplicity and oscillatory behavior of positive radial solutions to a class of quasilinear equations governed by the Lorentz-Minkowski mean curvature operator. The equation is set in a ball or an annulus of ${\mathbb{R}}^N$, is subject to homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions, and involves a nonlinear term on which we do not impose any growth condition at infinity. The main tool that we use is the shooting method for ODEs.

13 pages, 4 figures