Eigenvalues, bifurcation and one-sign solutions for the periodic \(p\)-Laplacian (Q1951459)

The authors establish a unilateral global bifurcation result for a class of quasilinear periodic boundary problems with a sign-changing weight. By the Ljusternik-Schnirelmann theory, they first study the spectrum of the periodic \(p\)-Laplacian with a sign-changing weight. In particular, they show that there exist two simple, isolated, principal eigenvalues. As an application of the above results, they get various conclusions about the existence of one-sign periodic solutions.