ON THE EXISTENCE AND NODAL CHARACTER OF THE SOLUTIONS OF SINGULAR NONLINEAR BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS

§ 1. Introduction We consider the singular nonlinear boundary value problem where l=v+3/v-1,l+1 is the critical exponent of the embedding of weighted Sobolev space W_t~2~(1,2)(O, +∞) into L_t~2~q(O, ∞), v>2. When v=N-1 we can get the radial solutions of problem where 2~*=2N/N-2 is the critical exponent of the Sobolev embedding H~1(R~n)→L~Q(R~N). Kurtz has discussed the existence of κ-node solution of (1.1), (1.2) for each κ∈N U{0} when the growth rate of |u|~(l-1)u+f(u) is lower then |u|~(v+3/v-1) i.e.