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J. Korean Math. Soc. 2000; 37(6): 943-956

Printed November 1, 2000

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Infinitely many solutions of a wave equation with jumping nonlinearity

Q-Heung Choi and Tacksun Jung

Abstract

We investigate a relation between multiplicity of solutions and source terms of jumping problem in a wave equation when the nonlinearity crosses an eigenvalue and the source term is generated by finite eigenfunctions. We also show that the jumping problem has infinitely many solutions when the source term is positive multiple of the positive eigenfunction.

Keywords: multiplicity of solutions, eigenvalue, eigenfunction

MSC numbers: 35BI0, 35L20