Positive solutions to sublinear elliptic problem

Abstract

Let $L$ be a second order elliptic operator $L$ with smooth coefficients defined on a domain $\Omega $ in $\mathbb{R}^d $, $d\geq3$, such that $L1\leq 0$. We study existence and properties of continuous solutions to the following problem \begin{equation}\label{00} Lu=\varphi(\cdot,u),% & \hbox{in $\Omega $; in the sens of distribution;} \\ \end{equation} in $\Omega,$ where $\Omega$ is a Greenian domain for $L$ {(possibly unbounded)} in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and $\varphi $ is a nonnegative function on $\Omega\times [0,+\infty [$ increasing with respect to the second variable. By means of thinness, we obtain a characterization of $\varphi$ for which \eqref{00} has a nonnegative nontrivial bounded solution.