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Lacunary bifurcation for operator equations and nonlinear boundary value problems on ℝN
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2011
Synopsis
We consider nonlinear eigenvalue problems of the form Lu + F(u) = λu in a real Hilbert space, where L is a positive self-adjoint linear operator and F is a nonlinearity vanishing to higher order at u = 0. We suppose that there are gaps in the essential spectrum of L and use critical point theory for strongly indefinite functionals to derive conditions for the existence of non-zero solutions for λ belonging to such a gap, and for the bifurcation of such solutions from the line of trivial solutions at the boundary points of a gap. The abstract results are applied to the L2-theory of semilinear elliptic partial differential equations on ℝN. We obtain existence results for the general case and bifurcation results for nonlinear perturbations of the periodic Schrödinger equation.
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- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 118 , Issue 3-4 , 1991 , pp. 237 - 270
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- Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1991
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