The spectrum and an index formula for the Neumann p-Laplacian and multiple solutions for problems with a crossing nonlinearity

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 431-456

  Aizicovici, S ^a   Papageorgiou, N S ^b   Staicu, V ^c  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

(S)+ operator; Crossing nonlinearity; Homotopy invariant; Index formula; Second eigenvalue

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349849526     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2009.25.431     Document Type: Article

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