Some nonlinear elliptic equations in \(\mathbb{R}^N\) (Q1968646)

Let \(p>2\) and \(p<2n/(n-2)\) if \(n>2\), \(\alpha_1, \dots, \alpha_k \in L^{n/2}(\mathbb{R}^n)\) such that \(\alpha_j\geq 0\), \(|\alpha_j |_{n/2} >0\), for all \(j=1,\dots,k\). Then there exist \(\varepsilon_1>0\), \(\varepsilon_i: \mathbb{R}_+^{i-1} \to\mathbb{R}_+\) for \(i=2, \dots,k\), \(\rho_j: \mathbb{R}_+^{j+k} \to\mathbb{R}_+\) for \(j=1, \dots,k-1\) such that if \(0<\lambda_1 <\varepsilon_1\), \(0<\lambda_i < \varepsilon_i (\lambda_1, \dots, \lambda_{i-1})\) or \(\lambda_1>i/ \varepsilon_1 \), \(\lambda_i>1/ \varepsilon_i (\lambda_1, \dots, \lambda_{i-1})\) for \(i=2, \dots, k\), and \(x_1,\dots, x_k\in \mathbb{R}^n\), \(|x_j|>\rho_{j-1} (\lambda_1, \dots, \lambda_k, |x_1|,\dots, |x_{j-1}|)\) for \(j=2, \dots,k\), there exist at least \(2k-1\) distinct positive critical points for \(f:H^{1,2} (\mathbb{R}^n)\to\mathbb{R}\), \(f(u)= \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} (|\nabla u|^2 +(1+ \sum^k_{j=1} \lambda_j^2\alpha_j (\lambda_j(.-x_i))) u^2)dx\) constrained on \(\{u\in H^{1,2} (\mathbb{R}^n)\): \(\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}|u|^p dx=1\}\).