Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society Advance Access published online on January 10, 2007
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, doi:10.1112/plms/pdl020
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On the existence and profile of nodal solutions for a two-dimensional elliptic problem with large exponent in nonlinearity
1 Dipartimento di Matematica
Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Largo S. Leonardo Murialdo
100146 Rome
Italy
esposito{at}mat.uniroma3.it
2 Departamento de Matemática
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Avenida Vicuña Mackenna 4860
Macul
Santiago
Chile
3 Dipartimento di Matematica
Politecnico di Torino
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi
2410129 Turin
Italy
monica.musso{at}polito.it
4 Dipartimento di Metodi e Modelli Matematici
Università di Roma La Sapienza
00100 Rome
Italy
pistoia{at}dmmm.uniroma1.it
Received 28 October 2005. Revision received 14 June 2006.
We study the existence of nodal solutions to the boundary value problem
u = |u|p 1u in a bounded, smooth domain
in
2, with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition, when p is a large exponent. We prove that, for p large enough, there exist at least two pairs of solutions which change sign exactly once and whose nodal lines intersect the boundary of
.