Infinitely many sign-changing solutions for some nonlinear fourth-order beam equations (Q370102)

Summary: Several new existence theorems on positive, negative, and sign-changing solutions for the following fourth-order beam equation are obtained, namely \[ \begin{aligned} u^{(4)} &= f(t, u(t)), \;t \in [0, 1]; \\ u(0) &= u(1) = u''(0) = u''(1) = 0, \end{aligned} \] where \(f \in C([0, 1] \times \mathbb R^1, \mathbb R^1)\). In particular, an infinitely many sign changing solution theorem is established. The method of invariant set of decreasing flow is employed to discuss this problem.