Saturation phenomena for some classes of nonlinear nonlocal eigenvalue problems (Q2180289)

Summary: Let us consider the following minimum problem \[\lambda_\alpha(p,r)=\min_{\substack{u\in W_0^{1,p}(-1,1)\\u\not\equiv0}}\frac{\int_{-1}^1|u'|^p\,dx+\alpha\left|\int_{-1}^1|u|^{r-1}u\, dx\right|^{\frac pr}}{\int_{-1}^1|u|^p\,dx},\] where \(\alpha\in\mathbb{R}\), \(p\ge 2\) and \(\frac p2 \le r \le p\). We show that there exists a critical value \(\alpha_C=\alpha_C (p,r)\) such that the minimizers have constant sign up to \(\alpha=\alpha_C\) and then they are odd when \(\alpha > \alpha_C\).