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Infinitely many radial solutions for a $p$-Laplacian problem with indefinite weight

 1 Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711, USA 2 Escuela de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Apartado Aéreo 3840, Medellín, Colombia

* Corresponding author: Alfonso Castro

Received  September 2020 Revised  February 2021 Published  March 2021

Fund Project: The last two authors are supported by Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Medellín

We prove the existence of infinitely many sign changing radial solutions for a $p$-Laplacian Dirichlet problem in a ball. Our problem involves a weight function that is positive at the center of the unit ball and negative in its boundary. Standard initial value problems-phase plane analysis arguments do not apply here because solutions to the corresponding initial value problem may blow up near the boundary due to the fact that our weight function is negative at the boundary. We overcome this difficulty by connecting the solutions to a singular initial value problem with those of a regular initial value problem that vanishes at the boundary.

Citation: Alfonso Castro, Jorge Cossio, Sigifredo Herrón, Carlos Vélez. Infinitely many radial solutions for a $p$-Laplacian problem with indefinite weight. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, doi: 10.3934/dcds.2021058
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