Existence of many nonequivalent nonradial positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations on three-dimensional annuli (Q1355840)

The existence of many nonequivalent nonradial solutions of the problem \[ \Delta u+u^p=0,\;u>0\text{ in } \Omega_R, \quad u=0 \text{ on } \partial\Omega_R \tag{1} \] where \(\Omega_R\equiv \{x\in\mathbb{R}^n |R-1\leq |x|\leq R+1\}\), \(1<p< (h+2)/(n-2)\) for \(n\geq 3\), \(1<p<\infty\) for \(n=2\). It is shown that for \(n=3\) the number of nonequivalent nonradial solutions of (1) tends to infinity as \(R\to\infty\). A constrained minimization problem is formulated to prove the existence of minimal energy solutions of (1) and to prove that for large \(R\) the minimal energy solutions of (1) in various symmetry classes have the same energy levels.