A class of semilinear elliptic equations on groups of polynomial growth (Q6046539)

The paper is concerned with the semilinear elliptic equation \[ -\Delta u+a(x)|u|^{p-2}u-b(x)|u|^{q-2}u=0,\tag{1} \] on the Cayley graph \((G,S)\) of a group \(G\) of polynomial growth with the homogeneous dimension \(N\ge 1\), where \(2\le p<q<\infty\), the functions \(a:G\to\mathbb{R}\) and \(b:G\to\mathbb{R}\) satisfy some conditions, and \(\Delta\) is the Laplace operator of \(u\) on \(G\). The authors study the existence of positive solutions for equation \((1)\) and the behavior of Palais-Smale sequences for the functional associated to \((1)\) on the Cayley graph \(G\).