On the relation between interior critical points of positive solutions and parameters for a class of nonlinear boundary value problems (Q1848016)

Summary: The authors consider the boundary value problem \[ -u''(x)=\lambda f(u(x)), \quad x\in (0,1); \qquad u'(0)=0; \quad u'(1)+\alpha u(1)=0, \] where \(\alpha >0\), \(\lambda >0\) are parameters and \(f\in c^{2}[0,\infty)\) such that \(f(0)<0\). Here, they study for the two cases \(\rho =0\) and \(\rho =\theta\) (\(\rho\) is the value of the solution at \(x=0\) and \(\theta\) is such that \(F(\theta)=0\) where \(F(s)= \int_0^s f(t) dt\)) a relation between \(\lambda\) and the number of interior critical points of the nonnegative solutions to the above system.