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Bifurcation for nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems I.

Kazuaki Taira (1996)

Collectanea Mathematica

This paper is devoted to local static bifurcation theory for a class of degenerate boundary value problems for nonlinear second-order elliptic differential operators. The purpose of this paper is twofold. The first purpose is to prove that the first eigenvalue of the linearized boundary value problem is simple and its associated eigenfunction is positive. The second purpose is to discuss the changes that occur in the structure of the solutions as a parameter varies near the first eigenvalue of the...

Bifurcation in the solution set of the von Kármán equations of an elastic disk lying on an elastic foundation

Joanna Janczewska (2001)

Annales Polonici Mathematici

We investigate bifurcation in the solution set of the von Kármán equations on a disk Ω ⊂ ℝ² with two positive parameters α and β. The equations describe the behaviour of an elastic thin round plate lying on an elastic base under the action of a compressing force. The method of analysis is based on reducing the problem to an operator equation in real Banach spaces with a nonlinear Fredholm map F of index zero (to be defined later) that depends on the parameters α and β. Applying the implicit function...

Bifurcation of free vibrations for completely resonant wave equations

Massimiliano Berti, Philippe Bolle (2004)

Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana

We prove existence of small amplitude, 2p/v-periodic in time solutions of completely resonant nonlinear wave equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions for any frequency ω belonging to a Cantor-like set of positive measure and for a generic set of nonlinearities. The proof relies on a suitable Lyapunov-Schmidt decomposition and a variant of the Nash-Moser Implicit Function Theorem.

Bifurcation theorems for nonlinear problems with lack of compactness

Francesca Faraci, Roberto Livrea (2003)

Annales Polonici Mathematici

We deal with a bifurcation result for the Dirichlet problem ⎧ - Δ p u = μ / | x | p | u | p - 2 u + λ f ( x , u ) a.e. in Ω, ⎨ ⎩ u | Ω = 0 . Starting from a weak lower semicontinuity result by E. Montefusco, which allows us to apply a general variational principle by B. Ricceri, we prove that, for μ close to zero, there exists a positive number λ * μ such that for every λ ] 0 , λ * μ [ the above problem admits a nonzero weak solution u λ in W 1 , p ( Ω ) satisfying l i m λ 0 | | u λ | | = 0 .

Bifurcation theorems of Rabinowitz type for certain differential operators of the fourth order

Jolanta Przybycin (1992)

Annales Polonici Mathematici

This paper was inspired by the works of P. H. Rabinowitz. We study nonlinear eigenvalue problems for some fourth order elliptic partial differential equations with nonlinear perturbation of Rabinowitz type. We show the existence of an unbounded continuum of nontrivial positive solutions bifurcating from (μ₁,0), where μ₁ is the first eigenvalue of the linearization about 0 of the considered problem. We also prove the related theorem for bifurcation from infinity. The results obtained are similar...

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