Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 4 (1999), Issue 3, Pages 195-208
doi:10.1155/S1085337599000147
Multiplicity of positive solutions to semilinear elliptic boundary value problems
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Maebashi 371-0816, Japan
Received 12 September 1999
Copyright © 1999 Kenichiro Umezu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We study semilinear elliptic boundary value problems of one parameter dependence where the number of positive solutions is discussed. Our main purpose is to characterize the critical value given by the infimum of such parameters for which positive solutions exist. Our approach is based on super- and sub-solutions, and relies on the topological degree theory on the positive cones of ordered Banach spaces. A concrete example is also presented.