This paper is concerned with semilinear equations in divergence form
where
35d67984df3227848b" title="Click to view the MathML source">f:R→[0,∞) is nondecreasing. We introduce a sharp Harnack type inequality for nonnegative solutions which is a quantified version of the condition for strong maximum principle found by Vazquez and Pucci–Serrin in and and is closely related to the classical Keller–Osserman condition and for the existence of entire solutions.