Perturbed eigenvalue problems for the Robin p-Laplacian plus an indefinite potential

Abstract

AbstractWe consider a parametric nonlinear Robin problem driven by the negative p-Laplacian plus an indefinite potential. The equation can be thought as a perturbation of the usual eigenvalue problem. We consider the case where the perturbation $$f(z,\cdot )$$ f ( z , · ) is $$(p-1)$$ ( p - 1 ) -sublinear and then the case where it is $$(p-1)$$ ( p - 1 ) -superlinear but without satisfying the Ambrosetti–Rabinowitz condition. We establish existence and uniqueness or multiplicity of positive solutions for certain admissible range for the parameter $$\lambda \in {\mathbb {R}}$$ λ ∈ R which we specify exactly in terms of principal eigenvalue of the differential operator.