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Multi-peak positive solutions to a class of Kirchhoff equations

Part of: Elliptic equations and systems Partial differential equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Peng Luo ,
Shuangjie Peng ,
Chunhua Wang  and
Chang-Lin Xiang
Peng Luo
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics and Hubei Key Laboratory of Mathematical Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, P.R. China (luopeng@whu.edu.cn; sjpeng@mail.ccnu.edu.cn; chunhuawang@mail.ccnu.edu.cn)
Shuangjie Peng
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics and Hubei Key Laboratory of Mathematical Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, P.R. China (luopeng@whu.edu.cn; sjpeng@mail.ccnu.edu.cn; chunhuawang@mail.ccnu.edu.cn)
Chunhua Wang
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics and Hubei Key Laboratory of Mathematical Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, P.R. China (luopeng@whu.edu.cn; sjpeng@mail.ccnu.edu.cn; chunhuawang@mail.ccnu.edu.cn)
Chang-Lin Xiang
Affiliation:
School of Information and Mathematics, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, 434023, P.R. China (changlin.xiang@yangtzeu.edu.cn)
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Abstract

In the present paper, we consider the nonlocal Kirchhoff problem

$$-\left(\epsilon^2a+\epsilon b\int_{{\open R}^{3}}\vert \nabla u \vert^{2}\right)\Delta u+V(x)u=u^{p}, \quad u \gt 0 \quad {\rm in} {\open R}^{3},$$
where a, b>0, 1<p<5 are constants, ϵ>0 is a parameter. Under some mild assumptions on the function V, we obtain multi-peak solutions for ϵ sufficiently small by Lyapunov–Schmidt reduction method. Even though many results on single peak solutions to singularly perturbed Kirchhoff problems have been derived in the literature by various methods, there exist no results on multi-peak solutions before this paper, due to some difficulties caused by the nonlocal term $\left(\int_{{\open R}^{3}} \vert \nabla u \vert^{2}\right)\Delta u$. A remarkable new feature of this problem is that the corresponding unperturbed problem turns out to be a system of partial differential equations, but not a single Kirchhoff equation, which is quite different from most of the elliptic singular perturbation problems.

Keywords

Kirchhoff equationsmulti-peak positive solutionslocal Pohozaev identityLyapunov–Schmidt reduction

MSC classification

Primary: 35A01: Existence problems
Secondary: 35B25: Singular perturbations 35J20: Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations 35J60: Nonlinear elliptic equations
Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 149 , Issue 4 , August 2019 , pp. 1097 - 1122
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2018 

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