Interior transition layers of solutions to the perturbed elliptic sine-Gordon equation on an interval (Q5941784)

The asymptotic behavior of the solutions \(u_\lambda\) to the perturbed elliptic sine-Gordon problem \[ -u''(t)+\lambda\sin u(t)=\mu f(u(t)),\;t\in I=(-T,T), \quad u(t)>0,t\in I, \quad u(-T)=u(T)=0, \] as \(\lambda\) tends to infinity, is studied. More precisely, the location of interior transition layers of \(u_\lambda\) (as \(\lambda\) goes to infinity) is obtained. Variational methods, subject to the constraint depending on \(\lambda\), are applied to solve the eigenvalue problem for a given positive \(\lambda\).