On Positive Solutions of Semilinear Elliptic Equations

Abstract
This paper is concerned with necessary conditions for the existence of positive solutions of the semilinear problem <!-- MATH $\Delta u + f(u) = 0,x \in \Omega ,u = 0,x \in \partial \Omega$ --> , whose supremum norm bears a certain relationship to zeros of the nonlinearity . We first discuss the smooth case (i.e., and <!-- MATH $\partial \Omega$ --> smooth) and then show how to obtain similar results in the nonsmooth case.

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