GLOBAL PROPERTIES AND MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS FOR BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEMS OF IMPULSIVE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS.

This article presents global properties and existence of multiple solutions for a class of boundary value problems of impulsive differential equations. We first show that the spectral properties of the linearization of these problems are similar to the well-know properties of the standard Sturm-Liouville problems. These spectral properties are then used to prove two Rabinowitz-type global bifurcation theorems. Finally, we use the global bifurcation theorems to obtain multiple solutions for the above problems having specified nodal properties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]