The Thomas-Fermi method and polarizability of nuclei
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https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9474(90)90299-2Abstract
We establish several results related to existence, nonexistence or bifurcation of positive solutions for the boundary value problem −∆u + K(x)g(u) + |∇u| a = λf (x, u) in Ω, u = 0 on ∂Ω, where Ω ⊂ R N (N ≥ 2) is a smooth bounded domain, 0 < a ≤ 2, λ is a positive parameter, and f is smooth and has a sublinear growth. The main feature of this paper consists in the presence of the singular nonlinearity g combined with the convection term |∇u| a . Our approach takes into account both the sign of the potential K and the decay rate around the origin of the singular nonlinearity g. The proofs are based on various techniques related to the maximum principle for elliptic equations.
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