TY - JOUR T1 - Existence and Uniqueness of Radial Solutions of Quasilinear Equations in a Ball AU - Gongming Wei & Zuchi Chen JO - Journal of Partial Differential Equations VL - 4 SP - 39 EP - 48 PY - 2002 DA - 2002/11 SN - 15 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jpde/5460.html KW - Quasilinear equations KW - shooting argument KW - radial classical solution AB - We consider the boundary value problem for the quasilinear equation div(A(|Du|)Du) + f(u) = 0, u > 0, x ∈ B_R(0), u|_{∂B_R(0)} = 0, where A and f are continuous functions in (0, ∞) and f is positive in (0, 1), f(1) = 0. We prove that (1) if f is strictly decreasing, the problem has a unique classical radial solution for any real number R > 0; (2) if f is not monotonous, the problem has at least one classical radial solution for some R > 0 large enough.