Symmetry-breaking under small perturbations (Q583466)

In continuation of the study of symmetry-breaking of solutions of \(\Delta u+f(u)=0\) on \(B_ R\) with \(u=0\) on \(\partial B_ R\) by the second author and \textit{A. Wasserman} [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 95, 217-225 (1986; Zbl 0629.35040)], the authors of the present paper consider small perturbations allowing also dependence on \(| x|\). It is shown that under the same conditions on f there occurs symmetry-breaking (meaning bifurcation of nonradial solutions from the radial ones with parameter R) for the solutions of the equation \[ \Delta u(x)+f(u(x))+\epsilon h(u(x),| x|)=0,\quad | \epsilon | \quad small. \]