On nonlocal existence results for elliptic equations with convex–concave nonlinearities Original Research Article

In this paper we study the family of nonlinear elliptic Dirichlet boundary value problems with p-Laplacian and with concave–convex nonlinearity which depend on real parameter λλ. We introduce nonlocal intervals (λi,λi+1)(λi,λi+1) such that the characteristic points λi,λi+1λi,λi+1 (a priori bifurcation values) expressed in terms of exact variational principles. In these intervals, new results on the existence of positive solutions, multiple positive solutions and existence of multiple disjoint sets with infinitely many solutions are proved.