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

• 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.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 34B15, 34B18.

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