Point-wise behavior of the explosive positive solutions to a degenerate elliptic BVP with an indefinite weight function.

In this paper we ascertain the singular point-wise behavior of the positive solutions of a semilinear elliptic boundary value problem (1) at the critical value of the parameter, λ , where it begins its metasolution regime. As the weight function m (x) changes sign in Ω, our result is a substantial extension of a previous, very recent, result of Li et al. [8] , where it was imposed the (very strong) condition that m ≥ 0 on a neighborhood of b − 1 ({ 0 }). In this paper, we are simply assuming that m (x 0) > 0 for some x 0 ∈ b − 1 ({ 0 }). • Theorem 1.1 proves that the behavior of the solutions proved by Li et al. [8] also occurs with much weaker hypotheses. • Theorem 3.1 is a substantial extension of Theorem 2.1 of López-Gómez and Sabina de Lis [12]. • Lemma 2.1 provides a useful estimate of eigenfunctions associated to an eigenvalue problem with sign changing weight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]