Uniqueness and Nondegeneracy of positive solutions to Kirchhoff equations and its applications in singular perturbation problems

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2019.08.016arXiv1703.05459MaRDI QIDQ6284388FDOQ6284388

Shuangjie Peng, Chang-Lin Xiang, Gongbao Li, Peng Luo, Chunhua Wang

Publication date: 15 March 2017

Abstract: In the present paper, we establish the uniqueness and nondegeneracy of positive energy solutions to the Kirchhoff equation �egin{eqnarray*} -left(a+bint_{mathbb{R}^{3}}|

abla u|^{2} ight)Delta u+u=|u|^{p-1}u & & ext{in }mathbb{R}^{3}, end{eqnarray*} where $a,b>0$, $1<p<5$ are constants. Then, as applications, we derive the existence and local uniqueness of solutions to the perturbed Kirchhoff problem �egin{eqnarray*} -left(epsilon^2a+epsilon bint_{mathbb{R}^{3}}|

abla u|^{2} ight)Delta u+V(x)u=|u|^{p-1}u & & ext{in }mathbb{R}^{3} end{eqnarray*} for $epsilon>0$ sufficiently small, under some mild assumptions on the potential function $V:mathbb{R}^{3}omathbbR$. The existence result is obtained by applying the Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction method. It seems to be the first time to study singularly perturbed Kirchhoff problems by reduction method, as all the previous results were obtained by various variational methods. Another advantage of this approach is that it gives a unified proof to the perturbation problem for all $pin(1,5)$, which is quite different from using variational methods in the literature. The local uniqueness result is totally new. It is obtained by using a type of local Pohozaev identity, which is developed quite recently by Deng, Lin and Yan in their work "On the prescribed scalar curvature problem in $mathbb{R}^N$, local uniqueness and periodicity." (see J. Math. Pures Appl. (9) {�f 104}(2015), 1013-1044).

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20)

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