Nonlinear noncoercive Neumann problems with a reaction concave near the origin (Q519287)

The paper deals with the study of a nonlinear Neumann problem driven by the \(p\)-Laplace operator. The main feature of this paper is the presence of a concave parametric reaction term combined with an asymptotically linear perturbation. The main result establishes multiplicity properties of the solutions. In such a way, the authors produce five nontrivial solutions all with sign information when the parameter is small. Moreover, in the semilinear cases corresponding to \(p=2\) it is proven that there are at least six solutions, with no information about the sign of the sixth solution. The approach developed in this paper combines critical point theory, truncation methods, comparison techniques, and Morse theory.