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We consider the perturbed Neumann problem ⎧ -Δu + α(x)u = α(x)f(u) + λg(x,u) a.e. in Ω, ⎨ ⎩ ∂u/∂ν = 0 on ∂Ω, where Ω is an open bounded set in ${ℝ}^N$ with boundary of class C², $\alpha \in L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$ with $essin{f}_{\Omega }\alpha >0$, f: ℝ → ℝ is a continuous function and g: Ω × ℝ → ℝ, besides being a Carathéodory function, is such that, for some p > N, $su{p}_{\left|s\right|\le t}\left|g(\cdot ,s)\right|\in L^p\left(\Omega \right)$ and $g(\cdot ,t)\in L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$ for all t ∈ ℝ. In this setting, supposing only that the set of global minima of the function $1/2\xi ²-{\int }_0^{\xi }f\left(t\right)dt$ has M ≥ 2 bounded connected components, we prove that, for all λ ∈ ℝ small enough, the above...

We present two results on existence of infinitely many positive solutions to the Neumann problem ⎧ $-{\Delta }_{p}u+\lambda \left(x\right){\left|u\right|}^{p-2}u=\mu f(x,u)$ in Ω, ⎨ ⎩ ∂u/∂ν = 0 on ∂Ω, where $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$ is a bounded open set with sufficiently smooth boundary ∂Ω, ν is the outer unit normal vector to ∂Ω, p > 1, μ > 0, $\lambda \in L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$ with $essin{f}_{x\in \Omega }\lambda \left(x\right)>0$ and f: Ω × ℝ → ℝ is a Carathéodory function. Our results ensure the existence of a sequence of nonzero and nonnegative weak solutions to the above problem.

We establish an existence theorem for a Dirichlet problem with homogeneous boundary conditions by using a general variational principle of Ricceri.