Morse theory applied to a \(T^2\)-equivariant problem (Q5946915)

The author deals with the following \(T^2\)-equivariant problem of periodic type: \(u\in C^2({\mathbb R}^2,{\mathbb R})\), \(-\varepsilon \Delta u(x,y) + F'(u(x,y))=0\) in \({\mathbb R}^2\), \(u(x,y)=u(x+T,y)=u(x,y+S)\) and \(\nabla u(x,y) = \nabla u(x+T,y)=\nabla (x,y+S)\) for all \((x,y)\in {\mathbb R}^2\), where \(\varepsilon, S, T>0\) are fixed numbers and \(F\colon {\mathbb R} \to {\mathbb R}\) is a coercive function which has exactly \(k\) maximum points \((k\geq 1)\). Using a suitable Morse theory for equivariant problems, she obtains that there exists an arbitrary great number of critical orbits, for \(\varepsilon\) suitably small and each orbit being homeomorphic to \(S^1\) or to \(T^2= S^1\times S^1\).