Coincidence Degree, and Nonlinear Differential Equations

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568 Robert E. Gaines Jean L. Mawhin

Coincidence Degree, and Nonlinear Differential Equations

Springer-Verlag Berlin.Heidelberg • New York 1977

Authors

Robert E. Gaines C o l o r a d o State University Department of Mathematics Fort Collins Colorado 80523/USA

Jean L. Mawhin Universit@ Catholique de Louvain Institut Math@matique B - 1 3 4 8 Louvain-la-Neuve/Belgium

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Gaines, Robert E

1941Coincidence degree, and nonlinear differential equations.

(Lecture notes in mathematics ; 568) Includes bibliographical references and index. i. Differential equations~ Nonlinear. 2. Boundary value problems. 5o Coincidence theory (Mathematics) I. Mawhin~ J., joint author. II. Title. III. Series: Lecture notes in mathematics (Berlin)

568.

QA3.L28

no. 568

[QA372]

510'.8s [515'.35] 76-58459

AMS Subject Classifications (1970): 34 B15, 34 K10, 35J 65, 47 H 15, 5 5 C 2 0 ISBN 3-540-08067-8 Springer-Verlag Berlin • Heidelberg • New York ISBN 0-387-08067-8 Springer-Verlag New York • Heidelberg - Berlin This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically those of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, broadcasting, reproduction by photocopying machine or similar means, and storage in data banks. Under § 54 of the German Copyright Law where copies are made for other than private use, a fee is payable to the publisher, the amount of the fee to be determined by agreement with the publisher. © by Springer-Verlag Berlin • Heidelberg 1977 Printed in Germany Printing and binding: Beltz Offsetdruck, Hemsbach/Bergstr. 2141/3140/543210

To Margaret, Marie~ Val@rie~ Jean and

Martha, Laura, Elissa.

TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Alternative III. Coincidence

problems

: an historical

perspective

degree for perturbations

of Fredholm 10

mappings IV. A generalized theorems

continuation

theorem and existence

for Lx = Nx

V. Two-point boundary value problems without

special

VI. Approximation

structure

of solutions

VII. Quasibounded perturbations VIII. Boundary value problems partial differential IX. Periodic

: nonlinearities

differential X. Coincidence

104

of Fredholm mappings

134

for some semilinear

elliptic

equations

151

nonlinearities

equations

and of functional 166

equations index, multiplicity

and bifurcation

theory XI. Coincidence

36

- The projection method

solutions of ordinary differential

with quasibo~nded

26

189

degree for k-set contractive perturbations 209

of linear Fredholm mappings XII. Nonlinear perturbations nonzero index

of Fredholm mappings

of

229

References

242

Index

261

I. INTRODUCTION

This work has its origin in lectures given by J. Mawhin in 1974 at the University of Brasilia and by R.E. Gaines in 1975 at the University of Louvain.

Those lectures respectively covered chapters II to IV, VII to IX

and chapters V-VI.

Chapters X to XII have been added to include more

recent material. The emphasis of the work is on the use of topolog