The Dirichlet problem for sublinear elliptic equations with source

Abstract

We present a necessary and sufficient condition on nonnegative Radon measures $\mu$ and $\nu$ for the existence of a positive continuous solution of the Dirichlet problem for the sublinear elliptic equation $-\Delta u=\mu u^q+\nu$ with prescribed nonnegative continuous boundary data in a general domain. Moreover, two-sided pointwise estimates of Brezis-Kamin type for positive bounded solutions and the uniqueness of a positive continuous $L^q$-solution are investigated.

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