A degree theory approach for the shooting method

arXiv1301.6232MaRDI QIDQ6239055FDOQ6239055

Authors: Congming Li 

Publication date: 26 January 2013

Abstract: The classical shooting-method is about finding a suitable initial shooting positions to shoot to the desired target. The new approach formulated here, with the introduction and the analysis of the `target map' as its core, naturally connects the classical shooting-method to the simple and beautiful topological degree theory. We apply the new approach, to a motivating example, to derive the existence of global positive solutions of the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev (also known as Lane-Emden) type system: [{{aligned} &(- riangle)^ku(x) = v^p(x), ,, u(x)>0 quad ext{in}quadmathbb{R}^n, & (- riangle)^k v(x) =u^q(x), ,, v(x)>0 quad ext{in}quadmathbb{R}^n, p, q>0, {aligned}.] in the critical and supercritical cases $frac1p+1+frac1q+1leqfracn-2kn$. Here we derive the existence with the computation of the topological degree of a suitably defined target map. This and some other results presented in this article completely solved several long-standing open problems about the existence or non-existence of positive entire solutions.

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