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Exact multiplicity results for boundary value problems with nonlinearities generalising cubic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Philip Korman ,
Yi Li  and
Tiancheng Ouyang
Philip Korman
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0025, U.S.A.
Yi Li
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, U.S.A.
Tiancheng Ouyang
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, U.S.A.
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Using techniques of bifurcation theory we present two exact multiplicity results for boundary value problems of the type

The first result concerns the case when the nonlinearity is independent of x and behaves like a cubic in u. The second one deals with a class of nonlinearities with explicit x dependence.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 126 , Issue 3 , 1996 , pp. 599 - 616
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1996

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