Positive solutions of some quasilinear singular second order equations

Abstract

AbstractIn this paper we study the existence and uniqueness of positive solutions of boundary vlue problems for continuous semilinear perturbations, say f: [0, 1) × (0, ∞) → (0, ∞), of class of quasilinear operators which represent, for instance, the radial form of the Dirichlet problem on the unit ball of RN for the operators: p-Laplacian (1 < p < ∞) ad k-Hessian (1 ≤ k ≤ N). As a key feature, f (r, u) is possibly singular at r = 1 or u =0, Our approach exploits fixed point arguments and the Shooting Method.