Bifurcation of Gradient Mappings Possessing the Palais-Smale Condition英文文献资料.docVIP

HindawiPublishingCorporation InternationalJournalofMathematicsandMathematicalSciences Volume2011,ArticleID564930,14pages doi:10.1155/2011/564930 ResearchArticle BifurcationofGradientMappingsPossessing thePalais-SmaleCondition ElliotTonkes EnergyEdgePtyLtd.,P.O.Box10755,Brisbane,QLD4000,Australia Correspondence shouldbeaddressedtoElliotTonkes,etonkes@.au Received30December 2010;Revised28February2011;Accepted4March2011 Academic Editor:MarcoSquassina Copyright q2011ElliotTonkes. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use,distribution, andreproduction in anymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. Thispaperconsidersbifurcationattheprincipaleigenvalue ofaclassofgradientoperators which possess the Palais-Smale condition. The existence of the bifurcation branch and the asymptotic nature of the bifurcation isveri?ed by using the compactness inthe Palais Smale condition and theorderofthenonlinearity intheoperator.Themain result isapplied toestimate the asyptotic behaviour ofsolutionstoaclassofsemilinear ellipticequations withacriticalSobolevexponent. 1.Introduction Let H be a real Hilbert space endowed with norm · and inner product ·,·. Let Φ ∈ C H,Randconsiderthebifurcationproblem 1 Φwμw. 1.1 Ifμ isabifurcationpointfor1.1,thenforsu?cientlysmallr0thereexistsasolutionwr ? to1.1,withwrrandμr → μ asr → 0. ? Krasnosel’skii 1 has shown that if Φ is weakly continuous and Φ completely continuous with a selfadjoint completely continuous Fr′echet derivative T at zero, then the smallest positive characteristic value μ0 of T forms a bifurcation point for Φ. A local bifurcationbranchexistsinaneighbourhoodofμ,uμ0,0. TheconditionthatΦbeweaklycontinuousisrelaxedin 2.Foraslightlymorespeci?c structureofΦ,authorssuchas 3,4see 5haveeliminatedtherequirementthatΦ be completelycontinuous. Inthispaper,itisshownthatthecompactnessinherentinthePalais-Sma