# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2021, 41(3): 1483-1506. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020326

## Existence of nodal solutions for the sublinear Moore-Nehari differential equation

 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Saga University, Saga, 840-8502, Japan

Received  May 2020 Revised  August 2020 Published  September 2020

Fund Project: * This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 20K03686

We study the existence of symmetric and asymmetric nodal solutions for the sublinear Moore-Nehari differential equation, $u''+h(x, \lambda)|u|^{p-1}u = 0$ in $(-1, 1)$ with $u(-1) = u(1) = 0$, where $0<p<1$, $h(x, \lambda) = 0$ for $|x|<\lambda$, $h(x, \lambda) = 1$ for $\lambda\leq |x|\leq 1$ and $\lambda\in (0, 1)$ is a parameter. We call a solution $u$ symmetric if it is even or odd. For an integer $n\geq 0$, we call a solution $u$ an $n$-nodal solution if it has exactly $n$ zeros in $(-1, 1)$. For each integer $n\geq 0$ and any $\lambda\in (0, 1)$, we prove that the equation has a unique $n$-nodal symmetric solution with $u'(-1)>0$. For integers $m, n \geq 0$, we call a solution $u$ an $(m, n)$-solution if it has exactly $m$ zeros in $(-1, 0)$ and exactly $n$ zeros in $(0, 1)$. We show the existence of an $(m, n)$-solution for each $m, n$ and prove that any $(m, m)$-solution is symmetric.

Citation: Ryuji Kajikiya. Existence of nodal solutions for the sublinear Moore-Nehari differential equation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2021, 41 (3) : 1483-1506. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020326
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