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Abstract

Consider a semilinear eigenvalue problem

  • equation image

where λ ∈ R, the linear operator equation image is defined in a real Hilbert space H and equation image : HH is generaly a nonlinear perturbation.

We can define a coincidence degree of the pair (equation image) under some conditions weaker than the ones when the classical coincidence degree was defined. Our final purpose is to extend the results to the case of the operators from the Banach space X into its dual X*, using the representation theorem due to Browder and Ton.

We use these results to study resonance problems in mechanics of continua, such as the buckling in finite elastostatics and the steady state flow of incompressible fluids. (© 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)