The authors study positive solutions of the following boundary value problem: $\begin{cases}\Delta u+ g(u)|\nabla u|^2+ f(u)= 0,\quad &\text{in }\Omega,\\ u= 0,\quad &\text{on }\partial\Omega,\end{cases}$ where $$\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d$$, $$d\geq 2$$; $$f(\cdot)$$ and $$g(\cdot)$$ are given functions. The goal of the authors is to get existence and uniqueness results and to describe the asymptotic near the boundary of $$\Omega$$.
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