Global bifurcation and exact multiplicity of positive solutions for a positone problem with cubic nonlinearity (Q424446)

The authors investigate the global bifurcation diagram and the exact multiplicity of positive solutions for the problem \[ \begin{cases} u''(x)+\lambda f_{\varepsilon}(u)=0,\,\,\,-1<x<1,\,\,\,u(-1)=u(1)=0,\\ f_{\varepsilon}(u)=-\varepsilon u^3+\sigma u^2-\kappa u+\rho,\end{cases} \] where \(\lambda,\,\varepsilon>0\) are two bifurcation parameters, and \(\sigma,\,\rho>0\), \(0<\kappa\leq \sqrt{\sigma\rho}\) are constants. They prove that there exists \(\widetilde \varepsilon>0\) such that, on the \((\lambda,\|u\|_{\infty})\)-plane, the bifurcation curve is \(S\)-shaped for \(0<\varepsilon<\widetilde \varepsilon\) and is monotone increasing for \(\varepsilon\geq \widetilde\varepsilon\).