Motivated by [3], we define the “Ambrosetti–Hess problem” to be the problem of bifurcation from infinity and of the local behavior of continua of solutions of nonlinear elliptic eigenvalue problems. Although the works in this direction underline the asymptotic properties of the nonlinearity, here we point out that this local behavior is determined by the global shape of the nonlinearity.

The aim of this paper is to investigate, as precisely as possible, a boundary value problem involving a third order ordinary differential equation. Its solutions are the similarity solutions of a problem arising in the study of the phenomenon of high frequency excitation of liquid metal systems in an antisymmetric magnetic field within the framework of boundary layer approximation.

In this paper we give simple and low degree examples of one-parameter polynomial families of planar differential equations which present generic, codimension one, isolated, compact bifurcations. In contrast with some examples which appear in the usual text books each bifurcation occurs when the bifurcation parameter is zero. We study the total number of limit cycles that the examples present and we also make their phase portraits on the Poincaré sphere.

We consider linear differential equations of the form $${\left(p\left(t\right)x^{\text{'}}\right)}^{\text{'}}+\lambda q\left(t\right)x=0(p\left(t\right)>0,q\left(t\right)>0)\left(\mathrm{A}\right)$$ on an infinite interval $[a,\infty )$ and study the problem of finding those values of $\lambda$ for which () has principal solutions $x_0(t;\lambda )$ vanishing at $t=a$. This problem may well be called a singular eigenvalue problem, since requiring $x_0(t;\lambda )$ to be a principal solution can be considered as a boundary condition at $t=\infty$. Similarly to the regular eigenvalue problems for () on compact intervals, we can prove a theorem asserting that there exists a sequence $\left\{{\lambda }_n\right\}$ of eigenvalues such...

The paper investigates singular nonlinear problems arising in hydrodynamics. In particular, it deals with the problem on the half-line of the form $${\left(p\left(t\right)u^{\text{'}}\left(t\right)\right)}^{\text{'}}=p\left(t\right)f\left(u\left(t\right)\right),$$$$u^{\text{'}}(...$$

Singular quadratic functionals of one dependent variable with nonseparated boundary conditions are investigated. Necessary and sufficient conditions for nonnegativity of these functionals are derived using the concept of coupled point and singularity condition. The paper also includes two comparison theorems for coupled points with respect to the various boundary conditions.

In the paper a sufficient condition for all solutions of the differential equation with $p$-Laplacian to be proper. Examples of super-half-linear and sub-half-linear equations $\left(\right|y^{\text{'}}{|}^{p-1}{y}^{\text{'}}{)}^{\text{'}}+r\left(t\right){\left|y\right|}^{\lambda }sgny=0$, $r>0$ are given for which singular solutions exist (for any $p>0$, $\lambda >0$, $p\ne \lambda$).