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April 2018, 11(2): 323-344. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2018018

Double resonance for Robin problems with indefinite and unbounded potential

Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou ^1, and Patrick Winkert ^2,

1.	National Technical University, Department of Mathematics, Zografou Campus, Athens 15780, Greece
2.	Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Mathematik, Straße des 17. Juni 136, 10623 Berlin, Germany

Received December 2016 Revised April 2017 Published January 2018

We study a semilinear Robin problem driven by the Laplacian plus an indefinite and unbounded potential term. The nonlinearity $f(x, s)$ is a Carathéodory function which is asymptotically linear as $ s\to ± ∞$ and resonant. In fact we assume double resonance with respect to any nonprincipal, nonnegative spectral interval $ \left[ \hat{λ}_k, \hat{λ}_{k+1}\right]$. Applying variational tools along with suitable truncation and perturbation techniques as well as Morse theory, we show that the problem has at least three nontrivial smooth solutions, two of constant sign.

Keywords: Indefinite potential, Robin boundary condition, regularity theory, critical groups, multiple nontrivial solutions, double resonance.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J20, 35J60, 58E05.

Citation: Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou, Patrick Winkert. Double resonance for Robin problems with indefinite and unbounded potential. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2018, 11 (2) : 323-344. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2018018

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[7]	L. Gasiński and N. S. Papageorgiou, Nonlinear Analysis, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, 2006.
[8]	L. Gasiński and N. S. Papageorgiou, Neumann problems resonant at zero and infinity, Ann. Mat. Pura Appl. (4), 191 (2012), 395-430. doi: 10.1007/s10231-011-0188-z.
[9]	L. Gasiński and N. S. Papageorgiou, Exercises in Analysis. Part 2: Nonlinear Analysis, Springer, Heidelberg, 2016. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-27817-9.
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[12]	D. Motreanu, V. V. Motreanu and N. S. Papageorgiou, Topological and Variational Methods with Applications to Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems, Springer, New York, 2014. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9323-5.
[13]	N. S. Papageorgiou and V. D. Rădulescu, Semilinear Neumann problems with indefinite and unbounded potential and crossing nonlinearity, Contemp. Math. , 595, Amer. Math. Soc. , Providence, RI, (2013), 293-315. doi: 10.1090/conm/595/11801.
[14]	N. S. Papageorgiou and V. D. Rădulescu, Multiple solutions with precise sign for nonlinear parametric Robin problems, J. Differential Equations, 256 (2014), 2449-2479. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2014.01.010.
[15]	N. S. Papageorgiou and V. D. Rădulescu, Multiplicity of solutions for resonant Neumann problems with an indefinite and unbounded potential, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 367 (2015), 8723-8756. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9947-2014-06518-5.
[16]	S. Robinson, Double resonance in semilinear elliptic boundary value problems over bounded and unbounded domains, Nonlinear Anal., 21 (1993), 407-424. doi: 10.1016/0362-546X(93)90125-C.
[17]	J. Su, Semilinear elliptic boundary value problems with double resonance between two consecutive eigenvalues, Nonlinear Anal., 48 (2002), 881-895. doi: 10.1016/S0362-546X(00)00221-2.
[18]	X. J. Wang, Neumann problems of semilinear elliptic equations involving critical Sobolev exponents, J. Differential Equations, 93 (1991), 283-310. doi: 10.1016/0022-0396(91)90014-Z.
[19]	W. Zou, Multiple solutions for elliptic equations with resonance, Nonlinear Anal., 48 (2002), 363-376. doi: 10.1016/S0362-546X(00)00190-5.

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