Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society Advance Access published online on November 27, 2006
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 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
2 Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina, josabina{at}ull.es
3 Instituto de Matemáticas y Fí sica 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
.