In this paper we consider the semilinear elliptic problem
where
f is a nonnegative, locally Lipschitz continuous function,
Ω is a smooth bounded domain and
15e2e7" title="Click to view the MathML source">λ>0 is a parameter. Under the assumption that
f has an isolated positive zero
α such that
for some small
δ>0, we show that for large enough
λ there exist at least two positive solutions
uλ<vλ, verifying
‖uλ‖∞<α<‖vλ‖∞ and
uλ,vλ→α uniformly on compact subsets of
Ω as
λ→+∞. The existence of these solutions holds independently of the behavior of
f near zero or infinity.