High multiplicity of positive solutions for superlinear indefinite problems with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions (Q1659327)

The author investigates a class of superlinear indefinite problems with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. In this work, the author uses the topological shooting technique of \textit{J. López-Góme} et al. [Commun. Pure Appl. Anal. 13, No. 1, 1--73 (2014; Zbl 1281.34027)], which firstly consists in studying separately the sets of points reached in the phase plane by all the solutions of the problem in the sets, where the weight is negative, and then in connecting such sets through the flow, where the weight is positive. For this last point, the author performs a careful analysis of the time maps that allows to establish all the types of connections. To overcome the problems the author uses a new approach consisting in using $\alpha$ as the main bifurcation parameter, which regulates in this way the amplitude of the region in which the weight is positive. Moreover, the author determines the structure of the bifurcation diagrams. The novelty of the result is that when $\lambda$ is sufficiently negative, the bifurcation diagrams always exhibit several isolated bounded components, the number of which can be arbitrarily high.