Branches of non-symmetric critical points and symmetry breaking in nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/27/3/435zbMATH Open1292.35033arXiv1304.4000OpenAlexW3102524690MaRDI QIDQ5413627FDOQ5413627

Authors: Jean Dolbeault, Maria J. Esteban 

Publication date: 30 April 2014

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study the bifurcation of branches of non-symmetric solutions from the symmetric branch of solutions to the Euler-Lagrange equations satisfied by optimal functions in functional inequalities of Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg type. We establish the asymptotic behavior of the branches for large values of the bifurcation parameter. We also perform an expansion in a neighborhood of the first bifurcation point on the branch of symmetric solutions, that characterizes the local behavior of the non-symmetric branch. These results are compatible with earlier numerical and theoretical observations. Further numerical results allow us to distinguish two global scenarios. This sheds a new light on the symmetry breaking phenomenon.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.4000

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zbMATH Keywords

Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalityradial symmetryEmden-Fowler transformationbranches of solutionsPöschl-Teller operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Inequalities applied to PDEs involving derivatives, differential and integral operators, or integrals (35A23) Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20)

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