Precise exponential decay for solutions of semilinear elliptic equations and its effect on the structure of the solution set for a real analytic nonlinearity.

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Authors Nils Ackermann, E. N. Dancer

Publication date 19 July 2016

Published in Differential and Integral Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03552

zbMATH Keywords

exact decay rateGreen's functionlocal connectivityreal analyticity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Semilinear elliptic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian (35J91)

Abstract: We are concerned with the properties of weak solutions of the stationary Schr"odinger equation $-Deltau+Vu=f(u)$, $uin{H}^1(mathbb{R}^N)cap{L}^{i}nfty(mathbb{R}^N)$, where $V$ is H"older continuous and $infV>0$. Assuming $f$ to be continuous and bounded near $0$ by a power function with exponent larger than $1$ we provide precise decay estimates at infinity for solutions in terms of Green's function of the Schr"odinger operator. In some cases this improves known theorems on the decay of solutions. If $f$ is also real analytic on $(0,infty)$ we obtain that the set of positive solutions is locally path connected. For a periodic potential $V$ this implies that the standard variational functional has discrete critical values in the low energy range and that a compact isolated set of positive solutions exists, under additional assumptions.

Review text

The authors discuss decay properties of weak solutions for problems \(-\Delta u+Vu=f(u)\), \ \(u\in H^1(\mathbb{R}^N)\cap L^\infty (\mathbb{R}^N)\), where the potential \(V\) is Hölder continuous, positive, bounded away from zero, and the nonlinearity \(f\) is continuous, \(|f(u)|\leq C|u|^q\) near \(u=0\) for some \(q>1\). In Section 2 it is shown that weak solutions have exponential decay at infinity, with decay at least as fast as that of \(H(x):=G(x,0)\), where \(G\) is the Green's function of the operator \(T:=-\Delta +V\). Under additional conditions on \(f\) (such as analyticity) exact rate of decay for positive solutions is established. Also, analyticity of \(f\) and periodicity of the potential \(V\) are used to prove local path connectivity of sets solutions and discrete critical values at low energy levels.

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