Positive solutions with a complex behavior for superlinear indefinite ODEs on the real line (Q2351998)
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Positive solutions with a complex behavior for superlinear indefinite ODEs on the real line (English)
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29 June 2015
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The authors study the nonlinear indefinite equation \[ \ddot{u}+a_{\mu}(t)u^{3}=0,\;t\in\mathbb{R} \leqno(1) \] where \(\mu>0\) is a large parameter and \(a_{\mu}(t)=a^{+}(t)-\mu a^{-}(t)\) for every \(t\in\mathbb{R}\), with \(a^{+}(t)\) and \(a^{-}(t)\) denoting the positive and negative part of a sign-changing, \(T\)-periodic function \(a\in L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R})\). They prove that for \(\mu\) large enough, the nonlinear scalar ODE (1) possesses infinitely many positive solutions, defined on the real line and which are characterized by the fact of being either small or large in each interval of positivity of \(a\). Moreover, they find periodic solutions having minimal period arbitrary large, and bounded non-periodic solutions, exhibing a complex behavior. The proof is based on an approximation procedure and on variational methods exploiting suitable natural contraints of Nehari type.
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positive solution
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periodic solution
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variational method
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Nehari type
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approximation procedure
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perturbed problems
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