Global bifurcation from infinity in some nonlinear Sturm-Liouville problems (Q6102216)

This study is about the bifurcation of solutions of the following nonlinear eigenvalue problem \[ -\left( p\left( x\right) y\left( x\right) ^{\prime}\right) ^{\prime }+q\left( x\right) y\left( x\right) =\lambda r\left( x\right) y\left( x\right) +g\left( x,y,y^{\prime},\lambda\right) ,~~x\in\left( 0,1\right), \] \[ b_{0}y\left( 0\right) =d_{0}p\left( 0\right) y^{\prime}\left( 0\right) , \] \[ \left( a_{1}\lambda+b_{1}\right) y\left( 1\right) =\left( c_{1} \lambda+d_{1}\right) p\left( 1\right) y^{\prime}\left( 1\right) , \] where \(\lambda\in\mathbb{R}\) is an eigenvalue parameter, \(p\in C^{1}\left( \left[ 0,1\right] ;\left(0,\infty\right) \right) ,\) \(q\in C\left( \left[ 0,1\right] ;~\mathbb{R} \right) ,\) \(r\in C\left( \left[ 0,1\right] ;\left( 0,\infty\right) \right) ,\) \(b_{0},d_{0},a_{1},b_{1},c_{1},d_{1}\in \mathbb{R}\) such that \(\left\vert b_{0}\right\vert +\left\vert d_{0}\right\vert >0\) , \(\sigma_{1}=a_{1}d_{1}-b_{1}c_{1}>0,\) and \(g\in C\left( \left[ 0,1\right] \times\mathbb{R}^{3};\mathbb{R}\right) \) satisfies the condition \[ g\left( x,u,s,\lambda\right) =\sigma\left( \left\vert u\right\vert +\left\vert s\right\vert \right) ,\text{ }\left\vert u\right\vert +\left\vert s\right\vert \rightarrow\infty,\tag{1} \] or \[ g\left( x,u,s,\lambda\right) =\sigma\left( \left\vert u\right\vert +\left\vert s\right\vert \right) ,\text{ }\left\vert u\right\vert +\left\vert s\right\vert \rightarrow0.\tag{2} \] The authors study the bifurcation of the problem when the nonlinear term \(g\) satisfies only condition (1) or both conditions (1) and (2). For these investigations, they reduce the problem to an integro-differential equation and extend the problem in operator form. Then, they show the existence of two families with an infinite continuum of solutions to these problems, originating from bifurcation points and taking place in fixed oscillating function classes in a neighborhood of these bifurcation points.