Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2003 (2003), Issue 17, Pages 975-984
doi:10.1155/S1085337503309029

On the existence of positive solutions for periodic parabolic sublinear problems

T. Godoy and U. Kaufmann

Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, Córdoba, 5000, Argentina

Abstract

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of positive solutions for sublinear Dirichlet periodic parabolic problems Lu=g(x,t,u) in Ω× (where ΩN is a smooth bounded domain) for a wide class of Carathéodory functions g:Ω××[0,) satisfying some integrability and positivity conditions.