Department of Mathematics The Technion Haifa 32000, Israel ; Department of Mathematics The Technion Haifa 32000, Israel
Abstract:
The main result of the paper is an extension of the bifurcation theorem of Rabinowitz to equations with continuous jointly in and of class . We also prove a bifurcation theorem for critical points of the function which is just continuous and changes at an isolated minimum (in ) to isolated maximum when passes, say, zero. The proofs of the theorems, as well as the the theorems themselves, are new, in certain important aspects, even when applied to smooth functions.