Existence and bifurcation of solutions for nonlinear perturbations of the periodic Schrödinger equation (Q1205278)

The authors combine earlier work of theirs on abstract bifurcation theorems to establish the existence of bifurcating solutions in \(H^ 1\) of the equations \[ -\Delta u+p(x)u\pm r(x)| u|^ \sigma u=\lambda u \] on \(\mathbb{R}^ N\). Here \(p\) is periodic and the problem is subcritical. The main difficulty is to construct test functions so that the condition \(T(\delta)\) of the abstract theorem is satisfied. The bifurcation occurs at the ends of gaps in the spectrum of the linear part.