Nontrivial solutions for one-dimensional fourth-order Kirchhoff-type equations (Q5964382)

Let \(K:[0,+\infty[\longrightarrow\mathbb{R}\) be a continuous function such that there exist positive numbers \(m_{0}\) and \(m_{1}\) with \(m_{0}\leq K(t)\leq m_{1}\) for all \(t\geq 0\). Consider the following fourth-order Kirchhoff-type problem \[ \begin{aligned} & u^{iv}+K\big(\int^{1}_{0}(-A\left|u'(x)\right|^{2}+B\left|u(x)\right|^{2})dx\big)(Au''+Bu)=\lambda f(x,u)+h(u),x\in(0,1),\\ & u(0)=u(1)=u''(0)=u''(1) \end{aligned}\eqno{(1)} \] where \(A\) and \(B\) are real constants, \(\lambda\) is a positive parameter, \(f:[0,1]\times\mathbb{R}\longrightarrow\mathbb{R}\) is an \(L^{2}-\)Carathéodory function such that \(f(x,0)\neq 0\) for all \(x\in [0,1]\), and \(h:\mathbb{R}\longrightarrow\mathbb{R}\) is a Lipschitz continuous function with the Lipschitz constant \(L>0\), i.e., \[ \left|h(t_{1})-h(t_{2})\right|\leq L\left|t_{1}-t_{2}\right| \] for every \(t_{1},t_{2}\in\mathbb{R}\) and \(h(0)=0\). Under some suitable conditions and using variational methods and critical point theory, the authors establish multiplicity results of nontrivial solutions for problem (1).