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Dual ground state solutions for the critical nonlinear Helmholtz equation

Part of: Elliptic equations and systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2019

Gilles Evéquoz  and
Tolga Yeşil
Gilles Evéquoz
Affiliation:
Institut für Mathematik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe–Universität, Robert-Mayer-Str. 10, 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (evequoz@math.uni-frankfurt.de; yesil@math.uni-frankfurt.de)
Tolga Yeşil
Affiliation:
Institut für Mathematik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe–Universität, Robert-Mayer-Str. 10, 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (evequoz@math.uni-frankfurt.de; yesil@math.uni-frankfurt.de)
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Abstract

Using a dual variational approach, we obtain nontrivial real-valued solutions of the critical nonlinear Helmholtz equation

$$-\Delta u-k^2u = Q(x) \vert u \vert ^{2^*-2}u,\quad u\in W^{2,2^*}({\open R}^{N})$$
for N ⩾ 4, where 2* : = 2N/(N − 2). The coefficient $Q \in L^{\infty }({\open R}^{N}){\setminus }\{0\}$ is assumed to be nonnegative, asymptotically periodic and to satisfy a flatness condition at one of its maximum points. The solutions obtained are so-called dual ground states, that is, solutions arising from critical points of the dual functional with the property of having minimal energy among all nontrivial critical points. Moreover, we show that no dual ground state exists for N = 3.

Keywords

Nonlinear Helmholtz equationcritical exponentdual variational methodnonvanishingnonexistence results

MSC classification

Primary: 35J20: Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations
Secondary: 35J05: Laplacian operator, reduced wave equation (Helmholtz equation), Poisson equation
Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 150 , Issue 3 , June 2020 , pp. 1155 - 1186
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 The Royal Society of Edinburgh

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Present address: School of Engineering, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Route du Rawil 47, 1950 Sion, Switzerland (gilles.evequoz@hevs.ch)

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