Piecewise quasilinearization methods for singular boundary-value problems in second-order ordinary differential equations are presented. These methods result in linear constant-coefficients ordinary differential equations which can be integrated analytically, thus yielding piecewise analytical solutions. The accuracy of the globally smooth piecewise quasilinear method is assessed by comparisons...

Article history: Received 15 December 2010 Received in revised form 21 April 2011 Accepted 24 April 2011 Available online 4 May 2011

Via a sub-supersolution method and a perturbation argument, we study the Lane-Emden-Fowler equation −∆u = p(x)[g(u) + f(u) + |∇u| ] in RN (N ≥ 3), where 0 < q < 1, p is a positive weight such that R∞ 0 rφ(r)dr < ∞, where φ(r) = max|x|=r p(x), r ≥ 0. Under the hypotheses that both g and f are sublinear, which include no monotonicity on the functions g(u), f(u), g(u)/u and f(u)/u, we show the exi...