Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
We study the existence of solutions of the semilinear equations (1) in which the non-linearity g may grow superlinearly in u in one of directions u → ∞ and u → −∞, and (2) −Δu + g(x, u) = h, in which the nonlinear term g may grow superlinearly in u as |u| → ∞. The purpose of this paper is to obtain solvability theorems for (1) and (2) when the Landesman-Lazer condition does not hold. More precisely, we require that h may satisfy are arbitrarily nonnegative constants, . The proofs are based upon degree theoretic arguments.