Special Session 4: Control and Optimization

Existence of Nodal solutions for problems with Robin conditions

Michael E Filippakis
University of Piraeus, Department of Digital Systems
Greece
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\begin{document} \maketitle \centerline{\scshape Michael Filippakis\footnote{The publication of this paper has been partly supported by the University of Piraeus Research Center}} {\footnotesize \centerline{Department of Digital Systems } \centerline{Univeristy of Piraeus} \centerline{Piraeus 18536, Greece} } \bigskip \begin{quote}{\normalfont\fontsize{8}{10}\selectfont {\bfseries Abstract.}\footnote{The publication of this paper has been partly supported by the University of Piraeus Research Center}} We consider a semilinear Robin problem driven by the negative Laplacian plus an indefinite, unbounded potential. The reaction term is a Caratheodory function of arbitrary structure outside an interval $[-c,c]$ ($c>0$), odd on $[-c,c]$ and concave near zero. Using a variant of the symmetric mountain pass theorem, together with truncation, perturbation and comparison techniques, we show that the problem has a whole sequence $\{u_n\}_{n\geq 1}$ of distinct nodal solutions converging to zero in $C^1(\overline{\Omega}).$ \par} \end{quote} %\tableofcontents \end{document}