On S-Shaped Bifurcation Curves for a Class of Perturbed Semilinear Equations

By making use of bifurcation analysis and continuation method, the authors discuss the exact number of positive solutions for a class of perturbed equations. The nonlinearities concerned are the so-called convex-concave functions and their behaviors may be asymptotic sublinear or asymptotic linear. Moreover, precise global bifurcation diagrams are obtained. Project supported by the Foundation of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (No. 06DZ004).