Constrained multiparameter global bifurcation (Q801576)

A global multiparameter bifurcation result of \textit{S. Antman} and the author [Global bifurcating multidimensional continua of solutions for multiparameter nonlinear eigenvalue problems, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 76, 339-354 (1981; Zbl 0479.58005)] is extended to the case where one looks for solutions to an additional nonlinear constraint, possibly nondifferentiable. The result is roughly the following: One searches for solutions of the system \(f(u,\lambda)=0\), \(g(u,\lambda)=0\), where \(f: X\times {\mathbb{R}}^{n+k}\to X\), \(g: X\times {\mathbb{R}}^{n+k}\to {\mathbb{R}}^ k\), \(f(0,\lambda)\equiv 0\), \(g(0,\lambda_ 0)=0\). A topological assumption implies that bifurcation should occur at \((0,\lambda_ 0)\), and from counting dimensions one expects the bifurcating solutions to form n-dimensional sheets. Then it is shown that the set of all solutions, with a point at infinity added and the trivial solutions \((0,\lambda)\) identified to a point, has nontrivial n-dimensional Čech cohomology.