Unilateral global bifurcation for a class of quasilinear elliptic systems and applications

Abstract

In this paper we establish a unilateral bifurcation result for a class of quasilinear elliptic system strongly coupled, extending the bifurcation theorem of [J. López-Gómez. Nonlinear eigenvalues and global bifurcation application to the search of positive solutions for general Lotka-Volterra reaction diffusion systems with two species. Differential Integral Equations, 7(5-6):1427–1452, 1994]. To this aim, we use several results, such that Fredholm operator of index 0 theory, eigenvalues of elliptic operators and the Krein-Rutman theorem. Lastly, we apply this result to some particular systems arising from population dynamics and determine a region of existence of coexistence states.