Asymptotics for semilinear field equations with slowly decaying mass (Q1323067): Difference between revisions

The objective of this note is to describe the asymptotic behaviour at infinity of positive energy solutions \(u(x)\) of semilinear elliptic equations, including the type \[ -\Delta u+m(x)u = f(x)u^ \alpha,\quad x \in \Omega \] in an exterior domain \(\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^ N\), \(N \geq 3\), \(1<\alpha \leq (N+2)/(N-2)\). It is assumed that \(m\) and \(f\) are nonnegative, bounded locally Hölder continuous functions in \(\Omega\). If \(m(x) \sim m_ 0 | x |^{-\sigma}\) as \(| x | \to \infty\) for some constants \(m_ 0>0\) and \(\sigma \in (0,2)\), the authors show in particular that every positive finite energy solution \(u(x)\) decays faster than \(C | x|^{-\gamma}\) but slower than \(C \exp(- \mu | x |)\) for any positive constants \(C,\mu\) and \(\nu\). Sharper results are given under refined hypotheses.