International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2006 (2006), Article ID 73278, 26 pages
doi:10.1155/IJMMS/2006/73278

Existence and bifurcation for some elliptic problems on exterior strip domains

Tsing-San Hsu

Center for General Education, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan 333, Taiwan

Received 21 December 2005; Revised 18 July 2006; Accepted 19 July 2006

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Abstract

We consider the semilinear elliptic problem Δu+u=λK(x)up+f(x) in Ω, u>0 in Ω, uH01(Ω), where λ0, N3, 1<p<(N+2)/(N2), and Ω is an exterior strip domain in N. Under some suitable conditions on K(x) and f(x), we show that there exists a positive constant λ such that the above semilinear elliptic problem has at least two solutions if λ(0,λ), a unique positive solution if λ=λ, and no solution if λ>λ. We also obtain some bifurcation results of the solutions at λ=λ.