Intermediate reduction method and infinitely many positive solutions of nonlinear Schrödinger equations with non-symmetric potentials

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Abstract: We consider the standing-wave problem for a nonlinear Schr"{o}dinger equation, corresponding to the semilinear elliptic problem �egin{equation*} -Delta u+V(x)u=|u|^{p-1}u, uin H^1(mathbb{R}^2), end{equation*} where V(x) is a uniformly positive potential and p>1. Assuming that �egin{equation*} V(x)=V_infty+frac{a}{|x|^m}+OBig(frac{1}{|x|^{m+sigma}}Big), ext{as} |x| ightarrow+infty, % ag{V2} end{equation*} for instance if p>2, m>2 and sigma>1 we prove the existence of infinitely many positive solutions. If V(x) is radially symmetric, this result was proved in cite{WY-10}. The proof without symmetries is much more difficult, and for that we develop a new {em intermediate Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction method}, which is a compromise between the finite and infinite dimensional versions of it.


The purpose of the present article is to study the NLS equation for a uniformly positive potential with a prescribed asymptotic behaviour. The main result is a statement that the PDE in question `has infinitely many non-radial positive solutions, whose energy can be made arbitrarily large'. The proof coinsists of several steps, which gradually improve upon each other. The proofs use the Lyaponov-Schmidt reduction, dominated convergence theorem, Riesz representation theorem, integration by parts, Fredholm alternative, Sobolev embedding theorem, theorem of means, implicit function theorem, Taylor theorem, and Banach fixed point theorem. Finally, generalizations to higher dimensions are discussed.



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