Large versus bounded solutions to sublinear elliptic problems
Let $L $ be a second order elliptic operator with smooth coefficients defined on a domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ (possibly unbounded), $d\geq 3$. We study nonnegative continuous solutions $u$ to the equation $L u(x) - φ(x, u(x))=0$ on $Ω$, where $φ$ is in the Kato class with respect to the first variable and it grows sublinearly with respect to the second variable. Under fairly general assumptions we prove that if there is a bounded non zero solution then there is no large solution.