The local stability of positive solutions to the Hammerstein equation with a nonmonotonic Nemytskii operator (Q1119891)

Let E be a Banach lattice which consists of some functions u:\(\Omega\) \(\to {\mathbb{C}}\) over a fixed domain \(\Omega\). This article is concerned with the local stability of a nonzero positive solution \(u^*\in E\) to the Hammerstein equation \[ u(x)=\int_{\Omega}k(x,y)f(y,u(y))d\mu (y),\quad x\in \Omega, \] where \(k\geq 0\), and f:\(\omega\) \(\times [0,\infty)\to [0,\infty)\) is not necessarily increasing in the second variable. It is assumed that \(f(x,0)=0\) and \(| \partial f(x,u)/\partial u| <f(x,u)/u\) for \(x\in \Omega\), \(u>0\). Under some mild additional hypotheses on E, k, \(\mu\) and f it is proved that the spectral radius of the Fréchet derivative at \(u^*\) of the Hammerstein operator is less than one. Also the impact of local stability on secondary bifurcations is investigated. The proof of the main result is based on the spectral theory for completely continuous and irreducible positive operators on Banach lattices.