Logistic elliptic equation with a nonlinear boundary condition arising from coastal fishery harvesting II

Abstract

We study the positive solutions of the logistic elliptic equation with a nonlinear Neumann boundary condition that models coastal fishery harvesting ([18]). An essential role is played by the smallest eigenvalue of the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem, with respect to which a noncritical case is studied in [32]. In this paper, we extend our analysis to the critical case and further study the noncritical case for a more precise description of the positive solution set. Our approach relies on the energy method, sub-and supersolutions, and implicit function analysis.