Shift and stability of ground states of a nonlinear Schrödinger equation outside a small insulated domain (Q1288863)

The authors study the behaviour and stability of ground states of a Neumann problem for the equation \(\Delta u- u+ u^p= 0\), \(u>0\) in the exterior of a shrinking domain \(\Omega_\varepsilon\subset \mathbb{R}^n\), \(\partial u/\partial\nu= 0\) on \(\partial\Omega_\varepsilon\), where \(1<p<(n+ 2)/(n- 2)\), \(n\geq 3\), \(\varepsilon>0\), \(\Omega_\varepsilon= \mathbb{R}^n\setminus (\varepsilon\Omega)\). Here \(\Omega\) is a fixed bounded smooth domain containing \(0\) in its interior with its complement having no bounded components, \(\nu\) is the unit normal of \(\partial\Omega_\varepsilon\), pointing away from \(\Omega_\varepsilon\). It is shown that the ground states concentrate a finite point that is a global maximum point of some function related to the domain. Having in mind this result, the authors apply it in order to prove the stability of the corresponding solitary waves of the time-dependent nonlinear Schrödinger equation \(iu_t+\Delta u+| u|^{p- 1}u= 0\) in the exterior of a shrinking domain, \(x\in \Omega_\varepsilon\), under homogeneous Neumann condition.