# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

July  2016, 15(4): 1497-1514. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2016.15.1497

## Classification of bifurcation curves of positive solutions for a nonpositone problem with a quartic polynomial

 1 Department of Applied Mathematics, National University of Tainan, Tainan 700, Taiwan, Taiwan

Received  September 2015 Revised  February 2016 Published  April 2016

We study exact multiplicity and bifurcation curves of positive solutions of the boundary value problem \begin{eqnarray} &u"(x)+\lambda (-u^4+\sigma u^3-\tau u^2+\rho u)=0, -1 < x < 1, \\ &u(-1)=u(1)=0, \end{eqnarray} where $\sigma, \tau \in \mathbb{R}$, $\rho \geq 0,$ and $\lambda >0$ is a bifurcation parameter. Then on the $(\lambda, \|u\|_\infty)$-plane, we give a classification of four qualitatively different bifurcation curves: an S-shaped curve, a broken S-shaped curve, a $\subset$-shaped curve and a monotone increasing curve.
Citation: Kuan-Ju Huang, Yi-Jung Lee, Tzung-Shin Yeh. Classification of bifurcation curves of positive solutions for a nonpositone problem with a quartic polynomial. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2016, 15 (4) : 1497-1514. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2016.15.1497
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