Existence and asymptotic behavior of standing waves of the nonlinear Helmholtz equation in the plane (Q2628094)

Let \(k>0\), \(p\geq 6\) and let \(Q:\mathbb{R}^2\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) be a measurable bounded function. The author establishes a regularity result for \(p\)-summable solutions to the nonlinear Helmotz equation \[ -\Delta u-k^2 u=Q(x)|u|^{p-2}u, \quad\text{in }\mathbb{R}^2.\tag{1} \] In particular, he proves that if \(u\in L^p(\mathbb{R}^2)\) is a solution to equation (1), then \(u\in W^{2,q}(\mathbb{R}^2)\), for all \(q\in [6,+\infty)\). In addition, if \(p>6\), the solution \(u\) belongs to \(W^{2,q}(\mathbb{R}^2)\), for all \(q\in (4,+\infty)\). In this latter case, an asymptotic expansion for \(u\) is given as well. Under the same assumptions, the author also proves the existence of a sequence of solutions \(\{u_n\}\) in \(L^p(\mathbb{R}^2)\) (and thus in \(W^{2,q}(\mathbb{R}^2)\)), such that \(\int_\Omega |u_n|^pdx\rightarrow +\infty\) if \(p>6\), provided that \(Q\) is non zero, nonnegative, and vanishing at infinity. Finally, an existence result only is established in the case \(p>6\), and nonzero nonnegative and \(\mathbb{Z}^2\) periodic \(Q\). The main results of this paper extend to the planar case those proved for the Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R}^N\), with \(N\geq 3\), in [\textit{G. Evequoz} and \textit{T. Weth}, Adv. Math. 280, 690--728 (2015; Zbl 1317.35030)]. The proofs involve variational methods and estimates for the extension to \(L^m\)-spaces of the resolvent Helmholtz operator.