A nodal solution of the scalar field equation at the second minimax level

DOI10.1112/BLMS/BDU075MaRDI QIDQ2933725zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kanishka Perera, Cyril Tintarev

Publication date 5 December 2014

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2356

zbMATH Keywords

nodal solutionscalar field equationground statenonlinear eigenvalue problemminimax level

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Semilinear elliptic equations (35J61) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Nonlinear eigenvalue problems and nonlinear spectral theory for PDEs (35P30)

Abstract: We prove the existence of a sign-changing eigenfunction at the second minimax level of the eigenvalue problem for the scalar field equation under a slow decay condition on the potential near infinity. The proof involves constructing a set consisting of sign-changing functions that is dual to the second minimax class. We also obtain a nonradial sign-changing eigenfunction at this level when the potential is radial.

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