Asymptotic behavior of solution branches of nonlocal boundary value problems (Q2153140)

The authors study the following parametrized differential equation with the nonlocal boundary value condition of integral type: \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} - u^{\prime\prime} = \lambda r(t) u + f(t,u), \quad t \in (0,1); \\ u(0) = 0, \,u(1) = \int_0^1 u(t)dg_1(t), \end{array} \right. \] where \(\lambda > 0\) is a parameter; \(r \colon [0,1] \to (0,+\infty)\) is a smooth function; \(f \colon [0,1] \times \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}\) is continuous; \(g_1\) is a function of bounded variation on \([0,1].\) It is shown that there exists a connected component of the solution set which bifurcates from infinity and oscillates infinitely often over an interval of \(\lambda\)-values.