Asymptotically Linear Problems and Antimaximum Principle for the Square Root of the Laplacian

This work deals with bifurcation of positive solutions for some asymptotically linear problems, involving the square root of the Laplacian (-Delta)(1/2). A simplified model problem is the following: {(-Delta)(1/2)u = lambda m(x)u + g(u) in Omega, u = 0 on partial derivative Omega, with Omega subset of R-N a smooth bounded domain, N >= 2, lambda > 0, m is an element of L-infinity(Omega), m(+) not equivalent to 0 and g is a continuous function which is super-linear at 0 and sub-linear at infinity. As a consequence of our bifurcation theory approach we prove some existence and multiplicity results. Finally, we also show an anti-maximum principle in the corresponding functional setting.

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