%0 Journal Article %T On a Perturbed Dirichlet Problem for a Nonlocal Differential Equation of Kirchhoff Type %A Anello Giovanni %J Boundary Value Problems %D 2011 %I Springer %X We study the existence of positive solutions to the following nonlocal boundary value problem in , on , where , is a Carath¨¦odory function, is a positive continuous function, and is a real parameter. Direct variational methods are used. In particular, the proof of the main result is based on a property of the infimum on certain spheres of the energy functional associated to problem in , . %U http://www.boundaryvalueproblems.com/content/2011/891430