Symmetry breaking via Morse index for equations and systems of Hénon-Schrödinger type

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Abstract: We consider the Dirichlet problem for the Schr"odinger-H'enon system -Delta u + mu_1 u = |x|^{alpha}partial_u F(u,v),quad qquad -Delta v + mu_2 v = |x|^{alpha}partial_v F(u,v) in the unit ball OmegasubsetmathbbRN,Ngeq2, where alpha>1 is a parameter and F:mathbbR2omathbbR is a p-homogeneous C2-function for some p>2 with F(u,v)>0 for (u,v)ot=(0,0). We show that, as alphaoinfty, the Morse index of nontrivial radial solutions of this problem (positive or sign-changing) tends to infinity. This result is new even for the corresponding scalar H'enon equation and extends a previous result by Moreira dos Santos and Pacella for the case N=2. In particular, the result implies symmetry breaking for ground state solutions, but also for other solutions obtained by an alpha-independent variational minimax principle.



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