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where $\Omega =\mathbb {R}^N$ or $\mathbb {R}^N\setminus \Omega$ is a compact set, $\rho >0$, $V\ge 0$ (also $V\equiv 0$ is allowed), $p\in (2,2+\frac 4 N)$. The existence of a positive solution $\bar u$ is proved when $V$ verifies a suitable decay assumption (Dρ), or if $\|V\|_{L^q}$ is small, for some $q\ge \frac N2$ ($q>1$ if $N=2$). No smallness assumption on $V$ is required if the decay assumption (Dρ) is fulfilled. There are no assumptions on the size of $\mathbb {R}^N\setminus \Omega$. The solution $\bar u$ is a bound state and no ground state solution exists, up to the autonomous case $V\equiv 0$ and $\Omega =\mathbb {R}^N$.
In this work, we study an elliptic problem involving an operator of mixed order with both local and nonlocal aspects, and in either the presence or the absence of a singular nonlinearity. We investigate existence or nonexistence properties, power- and exponential-type Sobolev regularity results, and the boundary behaviour of the weak solution, in the light of the interplay between the summability of the datum and the power exponent in singular nonlinearities.
We consider the non-linear Schrödinger equation(Pμ)
\begin{equation*}\begin{array}{lc}-\Delta u + V(x) u = \mu f(u) + |u|^{2^*-2}u, &\end{array}\end{equation*}
in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq3$, where V changes sign and $f(s)/s$, s ≠ 0, is bounded, with V non-periodic in x. The existence of a solution is established employing spectral theory, a general linking theorem due to [12] and interaction between translated solutions of the problem at infinity with some qualitative properties of them.
The Schrödinger–Poisson system describes standing waves for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation interacting with the electrostatic field. In this paper, we are concerned with the existence of positive ground states to the planar Schrödinger–Poisson system with a nonlinearity having either a subcritical or a critical exponential growth in the sense of Trudinger–Moser. A feature of this paper is that neither the finite steep potential nor the reaction satisfies any symmetry or periodicity hypotheses. The analysis developed in this paper seems to be the first attempt in the study of planar Schrödinger–Poisson systems with lack of symmetry.
The main purpose of this paper is to capture the asymptotic behaviour for solutions to a class of nonlinear elliptic and parabolic equations with the anisotropic weights consisting of two power-type weights of different dimensions near the degenerate or singular point, especially covering the weighted p-Laplace equations and weighted fast diffusion equations. As a consequence, we also establish the local Hölder estimates for their solutions in the presence of single power-type weights.
This project uses methods in geometric analysis to study almost complex manifolds. We introduce the notion of biharmonic almost complex structure on a compact almost Hermitian manifold and study its regularity and existence in dimension four. First, we show that there always exists smooth energy-minimizing biharmonic almost-complex structures for any almost Hermitian four manifold. Then, we study the existence problem where the homotopy class is specified. Given a homotopy class $[\tau ]$ of an almost complex structure, using the fact $\pi _4(S^2)=\mathbb {Z}_2$, there exists a canonical operation p on the homotopy classes satisfying $p^2=\text {id}$ such that $p([\tau ])$ and $[\tau ]$ have the same first Chern class. We prove that there exists an energy-minimizing biharmonic almost complex structure in the companion homotopy classes $[\tau ]$ and $p([\tau ])$. Our results show that, When M is simply connected, there exists an energy-minimizing biharmonic almost complex structure in the homotopy classes with the given first Chern class.
We consider the growth of the convex viscosity solution of the Monge–Ampère equation $\det D^2u=1$ outside a bounded domain of the upper half space. We show that if u is a convex quadratic polynomial on the boundary $\{x_n=0\}$ and there exists some $\varepsilon>0$ such that $u=O(|x|^{3-\varepsilon })$ at infinity, then $u=O(|x|^2)$ at infinity. As an application, we improve the asymptotic result at infinity for viscosity solutions of Monge–Ampère equations in half spaces of Jia, Li and Li [‘Asymptotic behavior at infinity of solutions of Monge–Ampère equations in half spaces’, J. Differential Equations269(1) (2020), 326–348].
We establish a priori bounds, existence and qualitative behaviour of positive radial solutions in annuli for a class of nonlinear systems driven by Pucci extremal operators and Lane-Emden coupling in the superlinear regime. Our approach is purely nonvariational. It is based on the shooting method, energy functionals, spectral properties, and on a suitable criteria for locating critical points in annular domains through the moving planes method that we also prove.
Motivated by some models of pattern formation involving an unoriented director field in the plane, we study a family of unoriented counterparts to the Aviles–Giga functional. We introduce a nonlinear $\operatorname {\mathrm {curl}}$ operator for such unoriented vector fields as well as a family of even entropies which we call ‘trigonometric entropies’. Using these tools, we show two main theorems which parallel some results in the literature on the classical Aviles–Giga energy. The first is a compactness result for sequences of configurations with uniformly bounded energies. The second is a complete characterization of zero-states, that is, the limit configurations when the energies go to 0. These are Lipschitz continuous away from a locally finite set of points, near which they form either a vortex pattern or a disclination with degree 1/2. The proof is based on a combination of regularity theory together with techniques coming from the study of the Ginzburg–Landau energy. Our methods provide alternative proofs in the classical Aviles–Giga context.
The aim of this paper is to study the dimension reduction analysis of an elastic plate with small thickness reinforced with increasing number of thin ribbons developing fractal geometry. We prove the $\Gamma $-convergence of the energy functionals to a two-dimensional effective energy including singular terms supported within the Sierpinski carpet.
We show that a complete, two-sided, stable immersed anisotropic minimal hypersurface in $\mathbf {R}^4$ has intrinsic cubic volume growth, provided the parametric elliptic integral is $C^2$-close to the area functional. We also obtain an interior volume upper bound for stable anisotropic minimal hypersurfaces in the unit ball. We can estimate the constants explicitly in all of our results. In particular, this paper gives an alternative proof of our recent stable Bernstein theorem for minimal hypersurfaces in $\mathbf {R}^4$. The new proof is more closely related to techniques from the study of strictly positive scalar curvature.
We study the asymptotic behaviour, as $p\to 1^+$, of the solutions of the following inhomogeneous Robin boundary value problem:P
\begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \displaystyle -\Delta_p u_p = f & \text{ in }\Omega,\\ \displaystyle |\nabla u_p|^{p-2}\nabla u_p\cdot \nu +\lambda |u_p|^{p-2}u_p = g & \text{ on } \partial\Omega, \end{cases} \end{equation*}
where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb {R}^{N}$ with sufficiently smooth boundary, $\nu$ is its unit outward normal vector and $\Delta _p v$ is the $p$-Laplacian operator with $p>1$. The data $f\in L^{N,\infty }(\Omega )$ (which denotes the Marcinkiewicz space) and $\lambda,\,g$ are bounded functions defined on $\partial \Omega$ with $\lambda \ge 0$. We find the threshold below which the family of $p$–solutions goes to 0 and above which this family blows up. As a second interest we deal with the $1$-Laplacian problem formally arising by taking $p\to 1^+$ in (P).
In this work, we study a quasilinear elliptic problem involving the 1-Laplacian operator, with a discontinuous, superlinear and subcritical nonlinearity involving the Heaviside function $H(\cdot - \beta )$. Our approach is based on an analysis of the associated p-Laplacian problem, followed by a thorough analysis of the asymptotic behaviour or such solutions as $p \to 1^+$. We study also the asymptotic behaviour of the solutions, as $\beta \to 0^+$ and we prove that it converges to a solution of the original problem, without the discontinuity in the nonlinearity.
We consider $L^{2}$-constraint minimizers of the mass critical fractional Schrödinger energy functional with a ring-shaped potential $V(x)=(|x|-M)^{2}$, where $M>0$ and $x\in \mathbb {R}^{2}$. By analysing some new estimates on the least energy of the mass critical fractional Schrödinger energy functional, we obtain the concentration behaviour of each minimizer of the mass critical fractional Schrödinger energy functional when $a\nearrow a^{\ast }=\|Q\|_{2}^{2s}$, where $Q$ is the unique positive radial solution of $(-\Delta )^{s}u+su-|u|^{2s}u=0$ in $\mathbb {R}^{2}$.
We prove the existence of a ground state positive solution of Schrödinger–Poisson systems in the plane of the form
\[ -\Delta u + V(x)u + \frac{\gamma}{2\pi} \left(\log|\cdot| \ast u^2 \right)u = b |u|^{p-2}u \quad\text{in}\ \mathbb{R}^2, \]
where $p\ge 4$, $\gamma,b>0$ and the potential $V$ is assumed to be positive and unbounded at infinity. On the potential we do not require any symmetry or periodicity assumption, and it is not supposed it has a limit at infinity. We approach the problem by variational methods, using a variant of the mountain pass theorem and the Cerami compactness condition.
We devote this paper to study semi-stable nonconstant radial solutions of $S_k(D^2u)=w(\left \vert x \right \vert )g(u)$ on the Euclidean space $\mathbb {R}^n$. We establish pointwise estimates and necessary conditions for the existence of such solutions (not necessarily bounded) for this equation. For bounded solutions we estimate their asymptotic behaviour at infinity. All the estimates are given in terms of the spatial dimension $n$, the values of $k$ and the behaviour at infinity of the growth rate function of $w$.
This note studies local integral gradient bounds for distributional solutions of a large class of partial differential inequalities with diffusion in divergence form and power-like first-order terms. The applications of these estimates are two-fold. First, we show the (sharp) global Hölder regularity of distributional semi-solutions to this class of diffusive PDEs with first-order terms having supernatural growth and right-hand side in a suitable Morrey class posed on a bounded and regular open set $\Omega$. Second, we provide a new proof of entire Liouville properties for inequalities with superlinear first-order terms without assuming any one-side bound on the solution for the corresponding homogeneous partial differential inequalities. We also discuss some extensions of the previous properties to problems arising in sub-Riemannian geometry and also to partial differential inequalities posed on noncompact complete Riemannian manifolds under appropriate area-growth conditions of the geodesic spheres, providing new results in both these directions. The methods rely on integral arguments and do not exploit maximum and comparison principles.
where $\Delta _{\Phi }u=\text {div}(\varphi (x,|\nabla u|)\nabla u)$ for a generalized N-function $\Phi (x,t)=\int _{0}^{|t|}\varphi (x,s)s\,ds$. We consider $\Omega \subset \mathbb {R}^{N}$ to be a smooth bounded domain that contains two disjoint open regions $\Omega _N$ and $\Omega _p$ such that $\overline {\Omega _N}\cap \overline {\Omega _p}=\emptyset$. The main feature of the problem $(P)$ is that the operator $-\Delta _{\Phi }$ behaves like $-\Delta _N$ on $\Omega _N$ and $-\Delta _p$ on $\Omega _p$. We assume the nonlinearity $f:\Omega \times \mathbb {R}\to \mathbb {R}$ of two different types, but both behave like $e^{\alpha |t|^{\frac {N}{N-1}}}$ on $\Omega _N$ and $|t|^{p^{*}-2}t$ on $\Omega _p$ as $|t|$ is large enough, for some $\alpha >0$ and $p^{*}=\frac {Np}{N-p}$ being the critical Sobolev exponent for $1< p< N$. In this context, for one type of nonlinearity $f$, we provide a multiplicity of solutions in a general smooth bounded domain and for another type of nonlinearity $f$, in an annular domain $\Omega$, we establish existence of multiple solutions for the problem $(P)$ that are non-radial and rotationally non-equivalent.
In this paper, we study the Lieb's translation lemma in Coulomb–Sobolev space and then apply it to investigate the existence of Pohožaev type ground state solution for elliptic equation with van der Waals type potential.