Positive solutions and bifurcation problems for some quasilinear elliptic equations in ℝN

Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Nonlinear eigenvalue problems and nonlinear spectral theory for PDEs (35P30)

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The authors study the bifurcation problem for the equation \[ -div ( a(x,u) |\nabla u|^{p-2} \nabla u) = \lambda g(x) |u|^{p-2}u + f(\lambda, x, u), \quad x \in \mathbb{R}^N. \tag{1} \] Here \(1<p<N\), \(f \) has subcritical growth, \(a(x, 0) = a_0(x) > 0\) and for \(|u|\leq K\), \(a(x,u)\) is bounded by a weight function of the type \((1 + |x|)^{-\beta}\) (in particular, there is no growth assumption on \(a\) in \(u\)). By using Hardy-type inequalities, embeddings of weighted Sobolev spaces and degree theory, the authors prove under various conditions that the pricipal eigenvalue of the corresponding homogeneous equation \[ -\text{div } ( a_0(x) |\nabla u|^{p-2} \nabla u) = \lambda g(x) |u|^{p-2}u \] is a bifurcation point (in the sense of Rabinowitz) for (1). More detailed proofs may be found in the authors' paper [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 204, No. 2, 582-608 (1996; Zbl 0874.35034)].

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