MULTIPLE BOUND STATES FOR THE SCHRÖDINGER–POISSON PROBLEM

DOI10.1142/S021919970800282XzbMath1188.35171MaRDI QIDQ3521656

David Ruiz, Antonio Ambrosetti

Publication date: 26 August 2008

Published in: Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

multiplicity; variational methods; Schrödinger-Poisson equation; Pohozaev equality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35J60: Nonlinear elliptic equations

35Q55: NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations)

35B30: Dependence of solutions to PDEs on initial and/or boundary data and/or on parameters of PDEs

35J20: Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations

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