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A remark on least energy solutions in 𝐑^{𝐍}

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society Β· 2002 Β· Vol. 131(8) Β· pp. 2399–2408
Louis Jeanjeanβœ‰Kazunaga Tanaka

Abstract

We study a mountain pass characterization of least energy solutions of the following nonlinear scalar field equation in <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="bold upper R Superscript upper N"> <mml:semantics> <mml:msup> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:mi mathvariant="bold">R</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> </mml:msup> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\mathbf {R}^N</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> : <disp-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="minus normal upper Delta u equals g left-parenthesis u right-parenthesis comma u element-of upper H Superscript 1 Baseline left-parenthesis bold upper R Superscript upper N Baseline right-parenthesis comma"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo> βˆ’ </mml:mo> <mml:mi mathvariant="normal"> Ξ” </mml:mi> <mml:mi>u</mml:mi> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mi>g</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>u</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mspace width="thinmathspace"/> <mml:mi>u</mml:mi> <mml:mo> ∈ </mml:mo> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>H</mml:mi> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:msup> <mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo> <mml:msup> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:mi mathvariant="bold">R</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> </mml:msup> <mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\begin{equation*} -\Delta u = g(u),\, u \in H^1(\mathbf {R}^N), \end{equation*}</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </disp-formula> where <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper N greater-than-or-equal-to 2"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> <mml:mo> β‰₯ </mml:mo> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">N\geq 2</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> . Without the assumption of the monotonicity of <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="t right-arrow from bar StartFraction g left-parenthesis t right-parenthesis Over t EndFraction"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>t</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false"> ↦ </mml:mo> <mml:mfrac> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>g</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>t</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:mi>t</mml:mi> </mml:mfrac> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">t\mapsto \frac {g(t)}{t}</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> , we show that the mountain pass value gives the least energy level.

Advanced Mathematical Physics ProblemsNonlinear Partial Differential EquationsStability and Controllability of Differential EquationsMonotonic functionEnergy (signal processing)Scalar fieldMathematical physicsMathematicsNonlinear systemPhysicsScalar (mathematics)Characterization (materials science)Field (mathematics)

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Trudinger type inequalities in 𝐑^{𝐍} and their best exponents
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society Β· 1999 Β· 338 citations
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