Mountain pass and linking type solutions for semilinear Dirichlet forms (Q4953589)

The purpose of the present paper is twofold: (1) To extend the result on the existence of nontrivial positive solutions to a semilinear problem given by \textit{K. J. Falconer} [Semilinear partial differential equations on self-similar fractals (to appear)] to the more general framework of \textit{M. Biroli} and \textit{S. Tersian} [On the existence of nontrivial solutions to a semilinear equation relative to a Dirichlet form (to appear)], where the results are given only for problems on all the space and then in absence of boundary conditions. (2) To consider the case of the presence of a small linear term, say a term of the type \(\lambda a(x) u(x)\), where \(u(x)\) is the solution of the problem. In this case another existence result is obtained in connection with the interaction of the parameter \(\lambda\) with the eigenvalues of \(A/a(x)\), where \(A\) is the generator of the Dirichlet form in consideration. The proof uses a linking method due to Rabinowitz and generalizes a previous result of Rabinowitz given in the Euclidean framework [\textit{P. H. Rabinowitz}, Minimax methods in critical point they with applications to differential equations, Reg. Conf. Ser. Math. 65, Am. Math. Soc. (1986; Zbl 0609.58002)]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0934.00032].