# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

August  2012, 5(4): 707-714. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2012.5.707

## On some nonlocal eigenvalue problems

 1 Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, TX 78363-8202, United States 2 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, 150 W University Blvd, Melbourne, FL 32901 3 Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

Received  February 2011 Revised  May 2011 Published  November 2011

We study a class of nonlocal eigenvalue problems related to certain boundary value problems that arise in many application areas. We construct a nondecreasing and unbounded sequence of eigenvalues that yields nontrivial critical groups for the associated variational functional using a nonstandard minimax scheme that involves the $\mathbb{Z}_2$-cohomological index. As an application we prove a multiplicity result for a class of nonlocal boundary value problems using Morse theory.
Citation: Ravi P. Agarwal, Kanishka Perera, Zhitao Zhang. On some nonlocal eigenvalue problems. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2012, 5 (4) : 707-714. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2012.5.707
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