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The present paper deals with an elliptic operator in divergence form \[ Lu= -\sum^N_{i,j=1} {\partial\over\partial x_i} \Biggl(a_{ij}{\partial u\over\partial x_j}\Biggr)+ a_0(x)u\quad\text{in }\Omega \] and its corresponding Fučik spectrum, that is with the set \((\lambda_+, \lambda_-)\) in \(\mathbb{R}^2\) such that \[ \begin{gathered} Lu= m(\lambda_+ u^+- \lambda_- u^-)\quad\text{in }\Omega,\\ u= 0\quad\text{on }\partial\Omega.\end{gathered} \] Here \(u^+= \max(u,0)\), \(u^-= (-u)^+\), and \(m: \overline\Omega\to \mathbb{R}\) is a weight function in \(L^q(\Omega)\), \(q>{N\over 2}\), which does not change sign. The authors study the first curve in the Fučik spectrum, and give a comparison between curves associated to different weights. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0986.00055].