Global Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
  • Year: 2006
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 2

On Positive Solutions of a Superlinear Dirichlet Problem with a Weight Function

  • Author:
  • G.A. Afrouzi, Z. Naghizadeh, S. Mahdavi
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 95 to 102

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Mazandaran University, Babolsar, Iran.

*E-mail: afrouzi@umz.ac.ir

AMS Subject Classification: 35J60, 35B30, 35B40.

Abstract

We use variational method to study the existence of a positive solution of the equation −Δu(x) = λg(x)u(x)(1 + u(x)) with Dirichlet boundary condition to the case where g is positive. We present a numerical approach for finding positive solutions and we will show that in which range of λ, this problem achieves a numerical solution and what is the behavior of the branch of this solution.

Keywords

Superlinear problems, positive weight function, Dirichlet boundary value problem