Existence and non-existence results for semilinear elliptic problems in unbounded domains

Abstract
In this paper, we prove various existence and non-existence results for semilinear elliptic problems in unbounded domains. In particular we prove for general classes of unbounded domains that there exists no solution distinct from 0 offor any smooth f satisfying f(0) = 0. This result is obtained by the use of new identities that solutions of semilinear elliptic equations satisfy.