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Title Analytic global bifurcation and infinite turning points for very singular problems

Name Prashanth Srinivasan
Country India
Email pras@math.tifrbng.res.in
Co-Author(s) B. Bougherara, J. Giacomoni and S. Prashanth
Submit Time 2014-02-22 23:51:07
Session
Special Session 14: Reaction diffusion equations and applications
Contents
Let $\Omega$ be a domain in $\mathbb{R}^N, N \geq 2$, $\lambda>0$ a bifurcation parameter and $f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ a ``real analytic" type map such that $f(t)$ has superlinear growth as $t \to \infty$. We consider semilinear elliptic PDEs with the presence of a strong singular term as below: \begin{eqnarray*} ( P_\lambda)\qquad \left\{\begin{array} {ll} & - \Delta u = \lambda(u^{-\delta}+ f(u)) \quad \mbox{ in }\,\Omega ,\\ &u> 0\quad \mbox{ in }\,\Omega, \;\;u\vert_{\partial\Omega} = 0. \end{array}\right. \end{eqnarray*} Here the singular exponent $\delta$ is allowed to be any positive number. We are interested in this work to analyse the problem $(P_\lambda)$ using the framework of analytic bifurcation theory as developed in the works of Buffoni, Dancer and Toland. We obtain an analytic global unbounded path of solutions to $(P_\lambda)$ for any $\delta>0$ using this framework.