Complete structure of the Fučík spectrum of the p-Laplacian with integrable potentials on an interval

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (06) ◽  
pp. 1550085 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Chen ◽  
Jifeng Chu ◽  
Ping Yan ◽  
Meirong Zhang

To characterize the complete structure of the Fučík spectrum of the [Formula: see text]-Laplacian on higher dimensional domains is a long-standing problem. In this paper, we study the [Formula: see text]-Laplacian with integrable potentials on an interval under the Dirichlet or the Neumann boundary conditions. Based on the strong continuity and continuous differentiability of solutions in potentials, we will give a comprehensive characterization of the corresponding Fučík spectra: each of them is composed of two trivial lines and a double-sequence of differentiable, strictly decreasing, hyperbolic-like curves; all asymptotic lines of these spectral curves are precisely described by using eigenvalues of the [Formula: see text]-Laplacian with potentials; and moreover, all these spectral curves have strong continuity in potentials, i.e. as potentials vary in the weak topology, these spectral curves are continuously dependent on potentials in a certain sense.

Author(s):  
Eugenio Massa

In the first part of this paper, a variational characterization of parts of the Fučík spectrum for the Laplacian in a bounded domain Ω is given. The proof uses a linking theorem on sets obtained through a suitable deformation of subspaces of H1 (Ω). In the second part, a nonlinear Sturm–Liouville equation with Neumann boundary conditions on an interval is considered, where the nonlinearity intersects all but a finite number of eigenvalues. It is proved that, under certain conditions, this equation is solvable for arbitrary forcing terms. The proof uses a comparison of the minimax levels of the functional associated to this equation with suitable values related to the Fucík spectrum.


2012 ◽  
pp. 67-106
Author(s):  
Kanishka Perera ◽  
Martin Schechter

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