Large solutions to non-divergence structure semilinear elliptic equations with inhomogeneous term

Abstract

AbstractMotivated by the work [9], in this paper we investigate the infinite boundary value problem associated with the semilinear PDE{Lu=f(u)+h(x)}on bounded smooth domains{\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{n}}, whereLis a non-divergence structure uniformly elliptic operator with singular lower-order terms. In the equation,fis a continuous non-decreasing function that satisfies the Keller–Osserman condition, whilehis a continuous function in Ω that may change sign, and which may be unbounded on Ω. Our purpose is two-fold. First we study some sufficient conditions onfandhthat would ensure existence of boundary blow-up solutions of the above equation, in which we allow the lower-order coefficients to be singular on the boundary. The second objective is to provide sufficient conditions onfandhfor the uniqueness of boundary blow-up solutions. However, to obtain uniqueness, we need the lower-order coefficients ofLto be bounded in Ω, but we still allowhto be unbounded on Ω.