Finding critical points whose polarization is also a critical point

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Authors Marco Squassina, Jean Van Schaftingen

Publication date 3 January 2014

Published in Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.6217

zbMATH Keywords

polarizationsymmetrizationmountain pass lemmageneral minimax principalnon-smooth critical point theorysymmetry of solutions of semi-linear elliptic PDEs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Critical points of functionals in context of PDEs (e.g., energy functionals) (35B38) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Semilinear elliptic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian (35J91) Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35)

Abstract: We show that near any given minimizing sequence of paths for the mountain pass lemma, there exists a critical point whose polarization is also a critical point. This is motivated by the fact that if any polarization of a critical point is also a critical point and the Euler-Lagrange equation is a second-order semi-linear elliptic problem, T. Bartsch, T. Weth and M. Willem (J. Anal. Math., 2005) have proved that the critical point is axially symmetric.

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