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

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2015.07.055zbMATH Open1326.35158arXiv1502.05927OpenAlexW1524137685MaRDI QIDQ499182FDOQ499182

Authors: Rainer Mandel, Thomas J. Bartsch 

Publication date: 30 September 2015

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

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 $lambdainmathbbR$.

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

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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)

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• Bifurcation of solutions of elliptic problems: local and global behaviour
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