Positive radial solutions for Dirichlet problems involving the mean curvature operator in Minkowski space

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we study the number of classical positive radial solutions for Dirichlet problems of type (P) − d i v ∇ u 1 − | ∇ u | 2 = λ f ( u )   in B 1 , u = 0                     on ∂ B 1 , $$\left\{\begin{aligned}\hfill & -\mathrm{d}\mathrm{i}\mathrm{v}\left(\frac{\nabla u}{\sqrt{1-\vert \nabla u{\vert }^{2}}}\right)=\lambda f(u)\quad \text{in}\enspace {B}_{1},\hfill \\ \hfill & u=0\quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \enspace \enspace \enspace \enspace \enspace \enspace \enspace \enspace \enspace \enspace \text{on}\enspace \partial {B}_{1},\enspace \hfill \end{aligned}\right.$$ where λ is a positive parameter, B 1 = { x ∈ R N : | x | < 1 } ${B}_{1}=\left\{x\in {\mathbb{R}}^{N}:\vert x\vert {< }1\right\}$ , f : [0, ∞) → [0, ∞) is a continuous function. Using the fixed point index in a cone, we prove the results on both uniqueness and multiplicity of positive radial solutions of (P).