Nonlinear flux ``concave-convex'' problems: a fibering method approach (Q2193483)

A natural variational functional \(\mathcal{J}\) is associated to the weak solutions to the concave-convex problem \[ \begin{cases}-\Delta_p u+|u|^{p-2}u=|u|^{r-2}u &x\in\Omega,\\ |\nabla u|^{p-2}\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu}=\lambda|u|^{q-2}u& x\in\partial\Omega,\end{cases} \] where \(1<q<p<r\), \(1<p<N\), \(r<p^*\). The objective of this work is to show that the above problem exhibits two infinite families of solutions with opposite energy sign when \(0<\lambda<\bar\lambda\) together with their \(C^{1,\beta}\)-regularity. The proof is based on the so-called fibering method and involves analysis of \(\mathcal{J}\) restricted to the Nehari manifold.