Existence and Uniqueness of Positive Solutions for Semipositone Lane-Emden Equations on the Half-Axis

Abstract

Semipositone Lane–Emden type equations are considered on the half-axis. Such equations have been used in modelling several phenomena in astrophysics and mathematical physics and are often difficult to solve analytically. We provide sufficient conditions for the existence of a positive continuous solution and we describe its global behavior. Our approach is based on a perturbed operator technique and fixed point theorems. Some examples are presented to illustrate the main results.