Existence and multiplicity of nontrivial solutions for semilinear elliptic Dirichlet problems across resonance (Q647563)

Let \(\Omega\) be an open bounded domain in \({\mathbb R}^n\) with smooth boundary and assume that \(f:\overline\Omega\times {\mathbb R}\rightarrow {\mathbb R}\) is a continuous function with a linear growth at infinity. This paper deals with the semilinear elliptic equation \(-\Delta u=f(x,u)\) in \(\Omega\) subject to the Dirichlet boundary condition \(u=0\) on \(\partial\Omega\). The main result establishes the existence and multiplicity of nontrivial solutions, provided that the nonlinearity crosses multiple eigenvalues of the Laplace operator. The proof combines variational arguments with Leray-Schauder degree tools.