Bifurcation diagrams of one-dimensional Kirchhoff-type equations (Q2081365)

In this paper, the author considers a nonlocal elliptic problem, which includes the one-dimensional Kirchhoff-type equation, \[ -\left( b+a\left\Vert u^{\prime}\right\Vert ^{2}\right) u^{\prime\prime}(x)=\lambda u(x)^{p},\quad x\in I:=\left( -1,1\right), \] \[ u(x)>0, \] \[ u\left( \pm1\right) =0, \] where \(\left\Vert u^{\prime}\right\Vert =\left( \int_{I}u^{\prime}(x)^{2}dx\right) ^{1/2}\), \(\alpha>0, b>0, p>0\) are given constants and \(\lambda>0\) is a bifurcation parameter. For the cases \(0<p<1\) or \(3<p<\infty\) and \(1\leq p\leq3\), the author gives and proves some theorems to establish the exact solution \(u_{\lambda}(x)\) of the problem, and the complete shape of the bifurcation curves \(\lambda=\lambda(\xi)\), where \(\xi=\left\Vert u_{\lambda}\right\Vert_{\infty}\). The author also explicitly obtains the problem's first eigenvalue and eigenfunction using a simple time map method.