On the indefinite Kirchhoff type problems with local sublinearity and linearity

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to study the indefinite Kirchhoff type problem: \begin{equation*} \left{ \begin{array}{ll} M\left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}(|\nabla u|^{2}+u^{2})dx\right) \left[ -\Delta u+u\right] =f(x,u) & \text{in }\mathbb{R}^{N}, \ 0\leq u\in H^{1}\left( \mathbb{R}^{N}\right), & \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} where $N\geq 1$, $M(t)=am\left( t\right) +b$, $m\in C(\mathbb{R}^{+})$ and $ f(x,u)=g(x,u)+h(x)u^{q-1}$. We require that $f$ is \textquotedblleft local\textquotedblright\ sublinear at the origin and \textquotedblleft local\textquotedblright\ linear at infinite. Using the mountain pass theorem and Ekeland variational principle, the existence and multiplicity of nontrivial solutions are obtained. In particular, the criterion of existence of three nontrivial solutions is established.