Infinitely many global continua bifurcating from a single solution of an elliptic problem with concave-convex nonlinearity

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2015.07.055MaRDI QIDQ499182zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rainer Mandel, Thomas J. Bartsch

Publication date 30 September 2015

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05927

zbMATH Keywords

global bifurcationconcave-convex nonlinearitysemilinear elliptic boundary value problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32) Semilinear elliptic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian (35J91)

Abstract: We study the bifurcation of solutions of semilinear elliptic boundary value problems of the form �egin{align*} �egin{aligned} -Delta u &= f_lambda(|x|,u,| abla u|) && ext{in }Omega, u &= 0 && ext{on }partialOmega, end{aligned} end{align*} on an annulus $Omegasubsetmathbb{R}^N$, with a concave-convex nonlinearity, a special case being the nonlinearity first considered by Ambrosetti, Brezis and Cerami: $f_{l}ambda(|x|,u,|ablau|)=lambda|u{|}^{q-2}u+|u{|}^{p-2}u$ with $1<q<2<p$. Although the trivial solution $u_{0}equiv0$ is nondegenerate if $lambda=0$ we prove that $(lambd{a}_0,u_0)=(0,0)$ is a bifurcation point. In fact, the bifurcation scenario is very singular: We show that there are infinitely many global continua of radial solutions $mathcal{C}_j^{p}msubsetmathbbRimesmathcal{C}^1(Omega)$, $jinmathbb{N}_0$ which bifurcate from the trivial branch $mathbbRimes0$ at $(lambd{a}_0,u_0)=(0,0)$ and consist of solutions having precisely $j$ nodal annuli. A detailed study of these continua shows that they accumulate at $mathbb{R}_{ge0}imes0$ so that every $(lambda,0)$ with $lambdage0$ is a bifurcation point. Moreover, adding a point at infinity to $mathcal{C}^1(Omega)$ they also accumulate at $mathbbRimesinfty$, so there is bifurcation from infinity at every $lambdainmathbbR$.

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