Positive solutions and bifurcation phenomena for nonlinear elliptic equations of logistic type: The superdiffusive case

Michael E. Filippakis; Donal O'Regan; Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou

doi:10.13025/26904

Positive solutions and bifurcation phenomena for nonlinear elliptic equations of logistic type: The superdiffusive case

Michael E. Filippakis
, Donal O'Regan
, Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou

Mathematics

National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
University of Galway

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Abstract

We consider a nonlinear elliptic equation of logistic type, driven by the p-Laplacian differential operator with a general superdiffusive reaction. We show that the equation exhibits a bifurcation phenomenon. Namely there is a critical value λ* of the parameter λ < 0, such that, if λ < λ, the equation has two nontrivial positive smooth solutions, if λ = λ*, then there is one positive solution and finally if λ ε (0, λ*), then there is no positive solution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1507-1527
Number of pages	21
Journal	Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis
Volume	9
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.13025/26904 https://doi.org/10.3934/cpaa.2010.9.1507
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2010

Keywords

Comparison principle
Linking sets
Mountain pass theorem
P-Laplacian
Superdiffusive reaction
Truncation techniques
Upper-lower solutions

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Positive solutions and bifurcation phenomena for nonlinear elliptic equations of logistic type: The superdiffusive case

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