New beams of global bifurcation points for a reaction-diffusion system with inequalities or inclusions (Q1039760)

The author considers a reaction-diffusion system of activator-inhibitor or substrate-depletion type which is subject to diffusion-driven instability. It is assumed that there is an obstacle on some measurable part of the interior and/or of the boundary of the domain. This obstacle is modeled either in terms of inequalities or of inclusions. The aim of this paper is to prove that there is a whole unbounded beam of global bifurcation points of spatially non-homogeneous stationary solutions which lies in the parameter domain. Those bifurcation points are not bifurcation points for the problem without the obstacle. Using the projection on a cone, variational inequalities are converted in fixed point problems. The results relies on a bifurcation result of Rabinowitz type, and on the Leray-Schauder degree for single-valued compact maps, and for upper semi-continuous multivalued compact maps.