Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society Advance Access originally published online on November 27, 2006
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 2007 94(1):1-25; doi:10.1112/plms/pdl001
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A bifurcation problem governed by the boundary condition II
1 Departamento de Análisis Matemático
Universidad de La Laguna
C/ Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez s/n
38271 La Laguna
Spain
jjgarmel{at}ull.es
josabina{at}ull.es
2 Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Universidad de Buenos Aires
1428 Buenos Aires
Argentina
3 Instituto de Matemáticas y Física Fundamental
CSIC
C/ Serrano 123
28006 Madrid
Spain
jrossi{at}dm.uba.ar
Received 4 May 2005. Revision received 17 January 2006.
In this work we consider the problem
u = a(x)up in
on 
, where
is a smooth bounded domain,
is the outward unit normal to 
,
is regarded as a parameter and 0 < p < 1. We consider both cases where a(x) > 0 in
or a(x) is allowed to vanish in a whole subdomain
0 of
. Our main results include existence of non-negative non-trivial solutions in the range 0 <
<
1, where
1 is characterized by means of an eigenvalue problem, uniqueness and bifurcation from infinity of such solutions for small
, and the appearance of dead cores for large enough
.