Positive solutions for nonlinear nonhomogeneous parametric Robin problems (Q1748351)

The authors study a parametric Robin problem driven by a nonlinear nonhomogeneous differential operator and with a superlinear Carathéodory reaction term given in the form \[ \begin{aligned} -\operatorname{div}a(Du(z))+\xi(z)u(z)^{p-1} & = \lambda f(z,u(z))\text{ in }\Omega, \\ \frac{\partial u}{\partial n_a} + \beta(z)u^{p-1}& = 0\text{ on } \partial \Omega, \end{aligned} \] with \(u>0\), \(\lambda>0\) and \(1 <p<\infty\). The main result is a bifurcation-type theorem for small values of the parameter. In addition, there exist positive solutions as the parameter \(\lambda>0\) approaches zero with arbitrarily large and arbitrarily small Sobolev norm. Moreover, the authors show the existence of a smallest positive solution \(u_\lambda^*\) for every admissible parameter value and study the properties of the map \(\lambda \to u^*_\lambda\).