Special Session 17: 

Oscillatory bifurcation for semilinear eigenvalue problems

Tetsutaro Shibata
Hiroshima University
Japan
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Abstract:
We consider the asymptotic behavior of bifurcation curves for semilinear eigenvalue problems with some oscillatory nonlinear terms. We treat the case where $\lambda$ is parameterized by the maximum norm $\alpha = \Vert u_\lambda\Vert_\infty$ of the solution $u_\lambda$ associated with $\lambda$. Then $\lambda$ is represented as $\lambda = \lambda(\alpha)$. In this talk, we focus on the problems where $\lambda(\alpha) \to \pi^2/4$ as $\alpha \to \infty$. We establish the asymptotic formulas for $\lambda(\alpha)$ as $\alpha \to \infty$ and $\alpha \to 0$ with the exact second terms. Then we understand well the whole structures of the bifurcation curves.