Numerical analysis of semilinear elliptic equations with finite spectral interaction

Abstract

We present an algorithm to solve $- \lap u - f(x,u) = g$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions in a bounded domain $Ω$. The nonlinearities are non-resonant and have finite spectral interaction: no eigenvalue of $-\lap_D$ is an endpoint of $\bar{\partial_2f(Ω,\RR)}$, which in turn only contains a finite number of eigenvalues. The algorithm is based in ideas used by Berger and Podolak to provide a geometric proof of the Ambrosetti-Prodi theorem and advances work by Smiley and Chun for the same problem.