On the Solution Structure of Nonlinear Hill's Equation II, Local Results (Q4383980)

This interesting paper deals with the local bifurcation structure of solution components in \(W^{2,p}(\mathbb{R})\times \mathbb{R}\) to nonlinear Hill equations of the type \[ -(p(x)u'(x))' + q(x)u(x) + f(x,u(x))u(x) = \lambda s(x)u(x), \quad x \in \mathbb{R}, \] near boundary points of the continuous spectrum (the global aspect of the problem [see the author, Math. Nachr. 188, 237-288 (1997)]) under the following basic conditions: (1) \(p,p',q,s : \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) are bounded, piecewise continuous and \(2-\)periodic functions such that \(1 \leq p(x)\), \(1 \leq s(x)\), \(x \in \mathbb{R}\). (2) \(f(.,y): \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\), is piecewise continuous and bounded; \(f(x,.): \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\), is continuous and \(f(x,0) = 0\); moreover, \(\lim_{| x | \rightarrow \infty} \;f(x,y) = 0\), uniformly in \(y \in I\), for all bounded intervals \(I\). (3) \(\exists \;N \in \mathbb{N}_{+} : f(x,y) = 0, \;\forall \;x \notin [-N,N]\). Moreover of different new results, the paper contains an introduction where the author provides a good view on previous and related works to the subject. Some examples illustrate the general results.