Qualitative properties of some noncoercive functionals arising from nonlinear boundary value problems

DOI10.1016/S0362-546X(98)00077-7MaRDI QIDQ4253171zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 2 February 2000

Published in Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0362-546x(98)00077-7

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointsglobal minimumnonlinear Dirichlet boundary value problemvariational methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B15) Topological structure of integral curves, singular points, limit cycles of ordinary differential equations (34C05)

Review text

In connection with the boundary value problem \[ -u(x)-u(x)+ g\bigl(u(x) \bigr)=h(x),\;x\in[0,\pi], \quad u(0)=u(\pi)=0, \] the functional \[ \Phi_G(u)= {1\over 2}\int^\pi_0 \bigl| u'(x) \bigr|^2dx-{1 \over 2}\int^\pi_0 \bigl| u(x) \bigr|^2 dx-\int^\pi_0 h(x)u(x)dx +\int^\pi_0 G\bigl(u(x) \bigr)dx, \] with \(G'(v)=g(v)\)is considered. With the help of an \(H\) such that \(H'(v)=G(v)\), sufficient conditions are given for \(\Phi_G\) to have a global minimum. Finiteness and infiniteness are studied for the set of critical points and the set of points where the minimum is attained.

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