Ground states of a nonlinear curl-curl problem in cylindrically symmetric media

DOI10.1007/S00030-016-0403-0zbMATH Open1372.35292arXiv1411.7153OpenAlexW2963962937MaRDI QIDQ520226FDOQ520226

Authors: Tomáš Dohnal, Michael Plum, W. Reichel, Thomas J. Bartsch 

Publication date: 3 April 2017

Published in: NoDEA. Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the nonlinear curl-curl problem $ablaimesablaimesU+V(x)U=Gamma(x)|U{|}^{p-1}U$ in $mathbb{R}^3$ related to the nonlinear Maxwell equations for monochromatic fields. We search for solutions as minimizers (ground states) of the corresponding energy functional defined on subspaces (defocusing case) or natural constraints (focusing case) of $H(mathrmcurl;mathbb{R}^3)$. Under a cylindrical symmetry assumption on the functions $V$ and $Gamma$ the variational problem can be posed in a symmetric subspace of $H(mathrmcurl;mathbb{R}^3)$. For a strongly defocusing case $mathrmesssup,Gamma<0$ with large negative values of $Gamma$ at infinity we obtain ground states by the direct minimization method. For the focusing case $mathrmessinf,Gamma>0$ the concentration compactness principle produces ground states under the assumption that zero lies outside the spectrum of the linear operator $ablaimesablaimes+V(x)$. Examples of cylindrically symmetric functions $V$ are provided for which this holds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.7153

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zbMATH Keywords

variational methodsground stateconcentration compactnessMaxwell's equationcurl-curl problemsymmetric subspace

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axially symmetric solutions to PDEs (35B07) Critical points of functionals in context of PDEs (e.g., energy functionals) (35B38) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

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