On bifurcation for semilinear elliptic Dirichlet problems and the Morse-Smale index theorem

Alessandro Portaluri, Nils Waterstraat

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Abstract

We study bifurcation from a branch of trivial solutions of semilinear elliptic Dirichlet boundary value problems on star-shaped domains, where the bifurcation parameter is introduced by shrinking the domain. In the proof of our main theorem we obtain in addition a special case of an index theorem due to S. Smale.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)572-575
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
Volume408
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 15 2013

Keywords

  • Crossing forms
  • Morse index theorem
  • Semilinear elliptic PDE
  • Variational bifurcation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analysis
  • Applied Mathematics

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