A multiplicity result for the scalar field equation

DOI10.1515/ANONA-2014-0022zbMATH Open1303.35029arXiv1311.3587OpenAlexW2964083382MaRDI QIDQ470290FDOQ470290

Authors: Kanishka Perera 

Publication date: 12 November 2014

Published in: Advances in Nonlinear Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove the existence of $N-1$ distinct pairs of nontrivial solutions of the scalar field equation in ${mathbbR}^N$ under a slow decay condition on the potential near infinity, without any symmetry assumptions. Our result gives more solutions than the existing results in the literature when $Nge6$. When the ground state is the only positive solution, we also obtain the stronger result that at least $N-1$ of the first $N$ minimax levels are critical, i.e., we locate our solutions on particular energy levels with variational characterizations. Finally we prove a symmetry breaking result when the potential is radial. To overcome the difficulties arising from the lack of compactness we use the concentration compactness principle of Lions, expressed as a suitable profile decomposition for critical sequences.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3587

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zbMATH Keywords

scalar field equationsymmetry breakingconcentration compactnessmultiple nontrivial solutionsvariational and minimax methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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