Fucik spectrum with weights and existence of solutions for nonlinear elliptic equations with nonlinear boundary conditions

Abstract

We consider the boundary value problem $$\displaylines{ - \Delta u + c(x) u = \alpha m(x) u^+ - \beta m(x) u^- +f(x,u), \quad x \in \Omega, \cr \frac{\partial u}{\partial \eta} + \sigma (x) u =\alpha \rho (x) u^+- \beta \rho (x) u^- +g(x,u), \quad x \in \partial \Omega, }$$ where \((\alpha, \beta) \in \mathbb{R}^2\), \(c, m \in L^\infty (\Omega)\), \(\sigma, \rho \in L^\infty (\partial\Omega)\), and the nonlinearities f and g are bounded continuous functions. We study the asymmetric (Fucik) spectrum with weights, and prove existence theorems for nonlinear perturbations of this spectrum for both the resonance and non-resonance cases. For the resonance case, we provide a sufficient condition, the so-called generalized Landesman-Lazer condition, for the solvability. The proofs are based on variational methods and rely strongly on the variational characterization of the spectrum. See also https://ejde.math.txstate.edu/special/02/m2/abstr.html