A semilinear elliptic problem on unbounded domains with reverse penalty (Q2492450)

The existence of positive solutions to the problem \[ -\Delta u+ u = b(x) u^{p-1} \] \[ u\in H^1(\mathbb R^N) \] \(p \in (2, \frac{2N}{N-2})\) has been proved by \textit{P. L. Lions} [Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré, Anal. Non Linéaire 1, 109--145 (1984; Zbl 0541.49009)] under the assumption \(b(x) \geq b_\infty = \lim_{| x| \rightarrow + \infty}b(x)\). In this paper the author considers the case \(b(x)<b_\infty\), with \(b_\infty >0\). Let \(L\) be any periodic lattice in \(\mathbb R^N\), \(b \in C(\mathbb R^N)\), the A. proves that there is a finite set \(Y \subset L\) and a convex combination \(b^Y\) of \(b(.-y)\), \(y\in Y\) such that the problem corresponding to \(b^Y\) has a positive solution.