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Radially symmetric solutions of a class of singular elliptic equations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
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The boundary value problem
is studied with a view to obtaining the existence of positive solutions in C1([0, 1])∩C2((0, 1)). The function f is assumed to be singular in the second variable, with the singularity modeled after the special case f(x, y) = a(x)y−p, p>0.
This boundary value problem arises in the search of positive radially symmetric solutions to
where Ω is the open unit ball in ℝN, centered at the origin, Γ is its boundary and |x| is the Euclidean norm of x.
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