Multiple positive solutions for nonlinear eigenvalue problems with the p-Laplacian

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4286-4300

  Hu, Shouchuan ^a   Papageorgiou, Nikolas S ^b  

^a MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

(S)+ operator; Degree map; Nonlinear eigenvalue problem; p Laplacian; Positive solutions

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SWITCHING SYSTEMS; TURBULENT FLOW;

(S)+-OPERATOR; DEGREE MAP; NONLINEAR EIGENVALUE PROBLEM; P-LAPLACIAN; POSITIVE SOLUTIONS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 55049113955     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2007.10.053     Document Type: Article

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