Positive solutions for a class of singular quasilinear Schrödinger equations with critical Sobolev exponent

We prove the existence of positive solutions of the following singular quasilinear Schrödinger equations at critical growth

$?\mathrm{\Delta }u?\lambda c(x)u?\kappa \alpha (\mathrm{\Delta }(|u{|}^{2\alpha }))|u{|}^{2\alpha ?2}u=|u{|}^{q?2}u+|u{|}^{2^{?}?2}u,u\in D^{1,2}({\mathbb{R}}^N),$

via variational methods, where $\lambda \ge 0$, $c:{\mathbb{R}}^N\to {\mathbb{R}}^{+}$, $\kappa >0$, $0<\alpha <1/2$, $2<q<2^{?}$. It is interesting that we do not need to add a weight function to control $|u{|}^{q?2}u$.     

Long time behavior of solutions to the 3D Hall-magneto-hydrodynamics system with one diffusion

This paper studies the asymptotic behavior of smooth solutions to the generalized Hall-magneto-hydrodynamics system (1.1) with one single diffusion on the whole space ${\mathbb{R}}^3$. We establish that, in the inviscid resistive case, the energy ${6b(t)6}_2^2$ vanishes and ${6u(t)6}_2^2$ converges to a constant as time tends to infinity provided the velocity is bounded in $W^{1?\alpha ,\frac{3}{\alpha }}({\mathbb{R}}^3)$; in the viscous non-resistive case, the energy ${6u(t)6}_2^2$ vanishes and ${6b(t)6}_2^2$ converges to a constant provided the magnetic field is bounded in $W^{1?\beta ,\infty }({\mathbb{R}}^3)$. In summary, one single diffusion, being as weak as ${(?\mathrm{\Delta })}^{\alpha }b$ or ${(?\mathrm{\Delta })}^{\beta }u$ with small enough $\alpha ,\beta$, is sufficient to prevent asymptotic energy oscillations for certain smooth solutions to the system.     

Uniqueness of critical points and maximum principles of the singular minimal surface equation

We consider a smooth solution $u>0$ of the singular minimal surface equation $\sqrt{1+|Du{|}^2}\text{ div}(Du/\sqrt{1+|Du{|}^2})=\alpha /u$ defined in a bounded strictly convex domain of ${\mathbb{R}}^2$ with constant boundary condition. If $\alpha <0$, we prove the existence a unique critical point of u. We also derive some $C^0$ and $C^1$ estimates of u by using the theory of maximum principles of Payne and Philippin for a certain family of Φ-functions. Finally we deduce an existence theorem of the Dirichlet problem when $\alpha <0$.     

Existence of solutions of a non-linear eigenvalue problem with a variable weight

We study the non-linear minimization problem on $H_0^1(\mathrm{\Omega })?L^q$ with $q=\frac{2n}{n?2}$, $\alpha >0$ and $n\ge 4$:

$\underset{\begin{array}{c}\hfill u\in H_0^1(\mathrm{\Omega })\hfill \\ \hfill {6u6}_{L^q}=1\hfill \end{array}}{\inf }?\underset{\mathrm{\Omega }}{\int }a(x,u)|\mathrm{?}u{|}^2?\lambda \underset{\mathrm{\Omega }}{\int }|u{|}^2$

where $a(x,s)$ presents a global minimum α at $(x_0,0)$ with $x_0\in \mathrm{\Omega }$. In order to describe the concentration of $u(x)$ around $x_0$, one needs to calibrate the behavior of $a(x,s)$ with respect to s. The model case is

$\underset{\begin{array}{c}\hfill u\in H_0^1(\mathrm{\Omega })\hfill \\ \hfill {6u6}_{L^q}=1\hfill \end{array}}{\inf }?\underset{\mathrm{\Omega }}{\int }(\alpha +|x{|}^{\beta }|u{|}^k)|\mathrm{?}u{|}^2?\lambda \underset{\mathrm{\Omega }}{\int }|u{|}^2.$

In a previous paper dedicated to the same problem with $\lambda =0$, we showed that minimizers exist only in the range $\beta <kn/q$, which corresponds to a dominant non-linear term. On the contrary, the linear influence for $\beta \ge kn/q$ prevented their existence. The goal of this present paper is to show that for $0<\lambda \le \alpha {\lambda }_1(\mathrm{\Omega })$, $0\le k\le q?2$ and $\beta >kn/q+2$, minimizers do exist.     

Existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for a static Schrödinger–Poisson–Slater equation

In this paper we study the following type of the Schrödinger–Poisson–Slater equation with critical growth

$?△u+(u^2?\frac{1}{|4\pi x|})u=\mu |u{|}^{p?1}u+|u{|}^{4}u,\text{in}{\mathbb{R}}^3,$

where $\mu >0$ and $p\in (11/7,5)$. For the case of $p\in (2,5)$. We develop a novel perturbation approach, together with the well-known Mountion–Pass theorem, to prove the existence of positive ground states. For the case of $p=2$, we obtain the nonexistence of nontrivial solutions by restricting the range of μ and also study the existence of positive solutions by the constrained minimization method. For the case of $p\in (11/7,2)$, we use a truncation technique developed by Brezis and Oswald [9] together with a measure representation concentration-compactness principle due to Lions [27] to prove the existence of radial symmetrical positive solutions for $\mu \in (0,{\mu }^{?})$ with some ${\mu }^{?}>0$. The above results nontrivially extend some theorems on the subcritical case obtained by Ianni and Ruiz [18] to the critical case.     

Concentrating standing waves for the Gross–Pitaevskii equation in trapped dipolar quantum gases

We are concerned with the following singularly perturbed Gross–Pitaevskii equation describing Bose–Einstein condensation of trapped dipolar quantum gases:

$\{\begin{array}{cc}\hfill & ?{\epsilon }^2\mathrm{\Delta }u+V(x)u+{\lambda }_1|u{|}^{2}u+{\lambda }_2(K?|u{|}^2)u=0\text{ in }{\mathbb{R}}^3,\hfill \\ \hfill & u>0,u\in H^1({\mathbb{R}}^3),\hfill \end{array}$

where ε is a small positive parameter, ${\lambda }_1,{\lambda }_2\in \mathbb{R}$, ? denotes the convolution, $K(x)=\frac{1?3{\cos }^2?\theta }{|x{|}^3}$ and $\theta =\theta (x)$ is the angle between the dipole axis determined by $(0,0,1)$ and the vector x. Under certain assumptions on $({\lambda }_1,{\lambda }_2)\in {\mathbb{R}}^2$, we construct a family of positive solutions $u_{\epsilon }\in H^1({\mathbb{R}}^3)$ which concentrates around the local minima of V as $\epsilon \to 0$. Our main results extend the results in J. Byeon and L. Jeanjean (2007) [6], which dealt with singularly perturbed Schrödinger equations with a local nonlinearity, to the nonlocal Gross–Pitaevskii type equation.     

Local boundedness of weak solutions to the Diffusive Wave Approximation of the Shallow Water equations

In this paper we prove that weak solutions to the Diffusive Wave Approximation of the Shallow Water equations

${?}_{t}u?\mathrm{?}?({(u?z)}^{\alpha }|\mathrm{?}u{|}^{\gamma ?1}\mathrm{?}u)=f$

are locally bounded. Here, u describes the height of the water, z is a given function that represents the land elevation and f is a source term accounting for evaporation, infiltration or rainfall.     

Blowup of solutions to a two-chemical substances chemotaxis system in the critical dimension

This paper deals with positive solutions of the fully parabolic system

$\{\begin{array}{cc}{u}_t=\mathrm{\Delta }u?\chi \mathrm{?}?(u\mathrm{?}v)\hfill & \mathrm{in}\mathrm{\Omega }\times (0,\infty ),\hfill \\ {\tau }_1{v}_t=\mathrm{\Delta }v?v+w\hfill & \mathrm{in}\mathrm{\Omega }\times (0,\infty ),\hfill \\ {\tau }_2{w}_t=\mathrm{\Delta }w?w+u\hfill & \mathrm{in}\mathrm{\Omega }\times (0,\infty )\hfill \end{array}$

under mixed boundary conditions (no-flux and Dirichlet conditions) in a smooth bounded convex domain $\mathrm{\Omega }?{\mathbb{R}}^4$ with positive parameters ${\tau }_1,{\tau }_2,\chi >0$ and nonnegative smooth initial data $(u_0,v_0,w_0)$.Global existence and boundedness of solutions were shown if ${6u_{0}6}_{L^1(\mathrm{\Omega })}<{(8\pi )}^2/\chi$ in Fujie–Senba (2017). In the present paper, it is shown that there exist blowup solutions satisfying ${6u_{0}6}_{L^1(\mathrm{\Omega })}>{(8\pi )}^2/\chi$. This result suggests that the system can be regard as a generalization of the Keller–Segel system, which has $8\pi /\chi$-dichotomy. The key ingredients are a Lyapunov functional and quantization properties of stationary solutions of the system in ${\mathbb{R}}^4$.     

On the global Cauchy problem for the Hartree equation with rapidly decaying initial data

This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem for the Hartree equation on ${\mathbb{R}}^n,n\in \mathbb{N}$ with the nonlinearity of type $(|?{|}^{?\gamma }?|u{|}^2)u,0<\gamma <n$. It is shown that a global solution with some twisted persistence property exists for data in the space $L^p\cap L^2,1\le p\le 2$ under some suitable conditions on γ and spatial dimension $n\in \mathbb{N}$. It is also shown that the global solution u has a smoothing effect in terms of spatial integrability in the sense that the map $t?u(t)$ is well defined and continuous from $\mathbb{R}?\{0\}$ to $L^{p^{\prime }}$, which is well known for the solution to the corresponding linear Schrödinger equation. Local and global well-posedness results for hat $L^p$-spaces are also presented. The local and global results are proved by combining arguments by Carles–Mouzaoui with a new functional framework introduced by Zhou. Furthermore, it is also shown that the global results can be improved via generalized dispersive estimates in the case of one space dimension.     

On the concentration phenomenon of L2-subcritical constrained minimizers for a class of Kirchhoff equations with potentials

In this paper, we study the existence and concentration behavior of minimizers for $i_V(c)=\underset{u\in S_c}{\inf }?I_V(u)$, here $S_c=\{u\in H^1({\mathbb{R}}^N)|{\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^N}V(x)|u{|}^2<+\infty ,|u{|}_2=c>0\}$ and

$I_V(u)=\frac{1}{2}\underset{{\mathbb{R}}^N}{\int }(a|\mathrm{?}u{|}^2+V(x)|u{|}^2)+\frac{b}{4}{(\underset{{\mathbb{R}}^N}{\int }|\mathrm{?}u{|}^2)}^2?\frac{1}{p}\underset{{\mathbb{R}}^N}{\int }|u{|}^p,$

where $N=1,2,3$ and $a,b>0$ are constants. By the Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequality, we get the sharp existence of global constraint minimizers of $i_V(c)$ for $2<p<2^{?}$ when $V(x)\ge 0$, $V(x)\in {L^{\infty }}_{loc}({\mathbb{R}}^N)$ and $\underset{|x|\to +\infty }{\lim }?V(x)=+\infty$. For the case $p\in (2,\frac{2N+8}{N})\backslash \{4\}$, we prove that the global constraint minimizers $u_c$ of $i_V(c)$ behave like

$u_c(x)\approx \frac{c}{|Q_p{|}_2}{\left(\frac{m_c}{c}\right)}^{\frac{N}{2}}{Q}_p(\frac{m_c}{c}x?z_c),$

for some $z_c\in {\mathbb{R}}^N$ when c is large, where $Q_p$ is, up to translations, the unique positive solution of $?\frac{N(p?2)}{4}\mathrm{\Delta }{Q}_p+\frac{2N?p(N?2)}{4}{Q}_p=|Q_p{|}^{p?2}{Q}_p$ in ${\mathbb{R}}^N$ and $m_c={(\frac{\sqrt{a^2{D}_1^2?4b{D}_2{i}_0(c)}+a{D}_1}{2b{D}_2})}^{\frac{1}{2}}$, $D_1=\frac{Np?2N?4}{2N(p?2)}$ and $D_2=\frac{2N+8?Np}{4N(p?2)}$.     

Characterization of f-extremal disks

We show uniqueness for overdetermined elliptic problems defined on topological disks Ω with $C^2$ boundary, i.e., positive solutions u to $\mathrm{\Delta }u+f(u)=0$ in $\mathrm{\Omega }?(M^2,g)$ so that $u=0$ and $\frac{?u}{?\overrightarrow{\eta }}=cte$ along ?Ω, $\overrightarrow{\eta }$ the unit outward normal along ?Ω under the assumption of the existence of a candidate family. To do so, we adapt the Gálvez–Mira generalized Hopf-type Theorem [19] to the realm of overdetermined elliptic problem.When $(M^2,g)$ is the standard sphere ${\mathbb{S}}^2$ and f is a $C^1$ function so that $f(x)>0$ and $f(x)\ge x{f}^{\prime }(x)$ for any $x\in {\mathbb{R}}_{+}^{?}$, we construct such candidate family considering rotationally symmetric solutions. This proves the Berestycki–Caffarelli–Nirenberg conjecture in ${\mathbb{S}}^2$ for this choice of f. More precisely, this shows that if u is a positive solution to $\mathrm{\Delta }u+f(u)=0$ on a topological disk $\mathrm{\Omega }?{\mathbb{S}}^2$ with $C^2$ boundary so that $u=0$ and $\frac{?u}{?\overrightarrow{\eta }}=cte$ along ?Ω, then Ω must be a geodesic disk and u is rotationally symmetric. In particular, this gives a positive answer to the Schiffer conjecture D (cf. [33], [35]) for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue and classifies simply-connected harmonic domains (cf. [28], also called Serrin Problem) in ${\mathbb{S}}^2$.     

Solutions for conformally invariant fractional Laplacian equations with multi-bumps centered in lattices

In this paper, we consider the following nonlinear elliptic equation involving the fractional Laplacian with critical exponent:

${(?\mathrm{\Delta })}^{s}u=K(x)u^{\frac{N+2s}{N?2s}},u>0\mathrm{in}{\mathbb{R}}^N,$

where $s\in (0,1)$ and $N>2+2s$, $K>0$ is periodic in $(x_1,\dots ,x_k)$ with $1\le k<\frac{N?2s}{2}$. Under some natural conditions on K near a critical point, we prove the existence of multi-bump solutions where the centers of bumps can be placed in some lattices in ${\mathbb{R}}^k$, including infinite lattices. On the other hand, to obtain positive solution with infinite bumps such that the bumps locate in lattices in ${\mathbb{R}}^k$, the restriction on $1\le k<\frac{N?2s}{2}$ is in some sense optimal, since we can show that for $k\ge \frac{N?2s}{2}$, no such solutions exist.     

A three-dimensional Keller–Segel–Navier–Stokes system with logistic source: Global weak solutions and asymptotic stabilization

The Keller–Segel–Navier–Stokes system

(?)$\{\begin{array}{ccc}\hfill n_t+u?\mathrm{?}n& \hfill =\hfill & \mathrm{\Delta }n?\chi \mathrm{?}?(n\mathrm{?}c)+\rho n?\mu n^2,\hfill \\ \hfill c_t+u?\mathrm{?}c& \hfill =\hfill & \mathrm{\Delta }c?c+n,\hfill \\ \hfill u_t+(u?\mathrm{?})u& \hfill =\hfill & \mathrm{\Delta }u+\mathrm{?}P+n\mathrm{?}?+f(x,t),\hfill \\ \hfill \mathrm{?}?u& \hfill =\hfill & 0,\hfill \end{array}$

is considered in a bounded convex domain $\mathrm{\Omega }?{\mathbb{R}}^3$ with smooth boundary, where $?\in W^{1,\infty }(\mathrm{\Omega })$ and $f\in C^1(\overline{\mathrm{\Omega }}\times [0,\infty ))$, and where $\chi >0,\rho \in \mathbb{R}$ and $\mu >0$ are given parameters.It is proved that under the assumption that ${\sup }_{t>0}?{\int }_t^{t+1}{6f(?,s)6}_{L^{\frac{6}{5}}(\mathrm{\Omega })}ds$ be finite, for any sufficiently regular initial data $(n_0,c_0,u_0)$ satisfying $n_0\ge 0$ and $c_0\ge 0$, the initial-value problem for (?) under no-flux boundary conditions for n and c and homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions for u possesses at least one globally defined solution in an appropriate generalized sense, and that this solution is uniformly bounded in with respect to the norm in $L^1(\mathrm{\Omega })\times L^6(\mathrm{\Omega })\times L^2(\mathrm{\Omega };{\mathbb{R}}^3)$.Moreover, under the explicit hypothesis that $\mu >\frac{\chi \sqrt{{\rho }_{+}}}{4}$, these solutions are shown to stabilize toward a spatially homogeneous state in their first two components by satisfying

$\begin{array}{c}(n(?,t),c(?,t))\to (\frac{{\rho }_{+}}{\mu },\frac{{\rho }_{+}}{\mu })\text{in }{L}^1(\mathrm{\Omega })\times L^p(\mathrm{\Omega })\hfill \\ \text{for all }p\in [1,6)\text{as }t\to \infty .\hfill \end{array}$

Finally, under an additional condition on temporal decay of f it is shown that also the third solution component equilibrates in that $u(?,t)\to 0$ in $L^2(\mathrm{\Omega };{\mathbb{R}}^3)$ as $t\to \infty$.     

Blow-up phenomena for the Liouville equation with a singular source of integer multiplicity

We are concerned with the existence of blowing-up solutions to the following boundary value problem

$?\mathrm{\Delta }u=\lambda a(x)e^u?4\pi N{\delta }_0\text{ in }\mathrm{\Omega },u=0\text{ on }?\mathrm{\Omega },$

where Ω is a smooth and bounded domain in ${\mathbb{R}}^2$ such that $0\in \mathrm{\Omega }$, $a(x)$ is a positive smooth function, N is a positive integer and $\lambda >0$ is a small parameter. Here ${\delta }_0$ defines the Dirac measure with pole at 0. We find conditions on the function a and on the domain Ω under which there exists a solution $u_{\lambda }$ blowing up at 0 and satisfying $\lambda {\int }_{\mathrm{\Omega }}a(x)e^{u_{\lambda }}\to 8\pi (N+1)$ as $\lambda \to 0^{+}$.