Positive solutions for nonlinear parametric singular Dirichlet problems

Abstract

We consider a nonlinear parametric Dirichlet problem driven by the $p$-Laplace differential operator and a reaction which has the competing effects of a parametric singular term and of a Carath\'eodory perturbation which is ($p-1$)-linear near $+\infty$. The problem is uniformly nonresonant with respect to the principal eigenvalue of $(-\Delta_p,W^{1,p}_0(\Omega))$. We look for positive solutions and prove a bifurcation-type theorem describing in an exact way the dependence of the set of positive solutions on the parameter $\lambda>0$.