A Generalization of Mahadevan's Version of the Krein-Rutman Theorem and Applications top-Laplacian Boundary Value Problems

Abstract

We will present a generalization of Mahadevan’s version of the Krein-Rutman theorem for a compact, positively 1-homogeneous operator on a Banach space having the properties of being increasing with respect to a conePand such that there is a nonzerou∈P∖{θ}−Pfor whichMTpu≥ufor some positive constantMand some positive integerp. Moreover, we give some new results on the uniqueness of positive eigenvalue with positive eigenfunction and computation of the fixed point index. As applications, the existence of positive solutions forp-Laplacian boundary-value problems is considered under some conditions concerning the positive eigenvalues corresponding to the relevant positively 1-homogeneous operators.