Exact multiplicity of boundary blow-up solutions for a bistable problem

  • Authors:
  • Junping Shi;Shin-Hwa Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187, USA and School of Mathematics, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, 150080, PR China;Department of Mathematics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Computers & Mathematics with Applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We prove the exact multiplicity of positive boundary blow-up solutions to a semilinear elliptic equation with bistable nonlinearity for the one-dimensional case. We use time-mapping techniques to determine the exact shape of the bifurcation diagram.