Twin positive solutions for fourth-order two-point boundary-value problems with sign changing nonlinearities.
General mathematical theories usually originate from the investigation of particular problems and notions which could not be handled by available tools and methods. The Fučík spectrum and the -Laplacian are typical examples in the field of nonlinear analysis. The systematic study of these notions during the last four decades led to several interesting and surprising results and revealed deep relationship between the linear and the nonlinear structures. This paper does not provide a complete survey....
We generalize a well-known separation condition of Everitt and Giertz to a class of weighted symmetric partial differential operators defined on domains in . Also, for symmetric second-order ordinary differential operators we show that where is a singular point guarantees separation of on its minimal domain and extend this criterion to the partial differential setting. As a particular example it is shown that is separated on its minimal domain if is superharmonic. For the criterion...
Given a semilinear elliptic boundary value problem having the zero solution and where the nonlinearity crosses the first eigenvalue, we perturb it by a positive forcing term; we show the existence of two solutions under certain conditions that can be weakened in the onedimensional case.