%0 Journal Article %T Maximal Solutions of Semilinear Elliptic Equations with Locally Integrable Forcing Term %A Moshe Marcus %A Laurent Veron %J Mathematics %D 2008 %I arXiv %X We study the existence of a maximal solution of $-\Gd u+g(u)=f(x)$ in a domain $\Gw\subset \BBR^N$ with compact boundary, assuming that $f\in (L^1_{loc}(\Gw))_+$ and that $g$ is nondecreasing, $g(0)\geq 0$ and $g$ satisfies the Keller-Osserman condition. We show that if the boundary satisfies the classical $C_{1,2}$ Wiener criterion then the maximal solution is a large solution, i.e., it blows up everywhere on the boundary. In addition we discuss the question of uniqueness of large solutions. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2529v1