Global bifurcation for a class of nonlinear ODEs
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Boundary eigenvalue problems for ordinary differential equations (34B09) Positive solutions to nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B18) Topological structure of integral curves, singular points, limit cycles of ordinary differential equations (34C05) Bifurcation theory for ordinary differential equations (34C23)
Abstract: We briefly survey global bifurcation techniques, and illustrate their use by finding multiple positive periodic solutions to a class of second order quasilinear ODEs related to the Yamabe problem. As an application, we give a bifurcation-theoretic proof of a classical nonuniqueness result for conformal metrics with constant scalar curvature, that was independently discovered by O. Kobayashi and R. Schoen in the 1980s.
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