Global structure of positive solutions for a fourth-order boundary value problem with singular data (Q6060931)

Summary: We are concerned with a problem described the deformation of a simply supported beam of the form \[ \begin{cases} u^{(4)}(x)+c(x)u(x) + \sum\limits^p_{i=1}c_i \delta (x-x_i) u(x) = \lambda a(u(x)) + \lambda\sum^q_{j=1}a_j (u(x))\delta (x-y_j), \quad x\in (0,1), \\ u(0)=u(1)=u''(0)=u''(1)=0, \end{cases} \] where \(\lambda\) is a positive parameter, \(c\in C([0, 1],\mathbb{R}), c_i \in \mathbb{R}, a, a_j \in C([0,\infty),[0,\infty)), i = 1, 2, \ldots, p, j= 1, 2, \ldots, q, p, q \in \mathbb{N}\). The Dirac delta impulses \(\delta = \delta (x)\) are applied at given points \(0 < x_1 < x_2 <\cdots <x_p <1\) and \(0 < y_1 < y_2 < \cdots < y_q < 1\). We investigate the global structure of positive solutions by the global bifurcation techniques.