Existence and nonexistence of solutions for a singular $p$-Laplacian Dirichlet problem

Abstract

We study the existence of positive radially symmetric solution for the singular $p$-Laplacian Dirichlet problem, $-\bigtriangleup_p u =λ|u|^{p-2} u-γu^{-α}$ where $λ>0,γ>0$ and, $0<α<1$, are parameters and $Ω$, the domain of the equation, is a ball in $\mathbb{R}^N$. By using some variational methods we show that, if $λ$ is contained in some interval, then the problem has a radially symmetric positive solution on the ball. Moreover, we obtain a nonexistence result, whenever $λ\leq 0, γ<0$ and $Ω$ is a bounded domain, with smooth boundary.