Asymptotics for Erdős–Solovej Zero Modes in Strong Fields

We consider the strong field asymptotics for the occurrence of zero modes of certain Weyl–Dirac operators on \({\mathbb{R}^3}\). In particular, we are interested in those operators \({\mathcal{D}_B}\) for which the associated magnetic field \({B}\) is given by pulling back a two-form \({\beta}\) from the sphere \({\mathbb{S}^2}\) to \({\mathbb{R}^3}\) using a combination of the Hopf fibration and inverse stereographic projection. If \({\int_{\mathbb{s}^2} \beta \neq 0}\), we show that

$$\sum_{0 \leq t \leq T} {\rm dim Ker} \mathcal{D}{tB}=\frac{T^2}{8\pi^2}\,\Big| \int_{\mathbb{S}^2}\beta\Big|\,\int_{\mathbb{S}^2}|{\beta}| +o(T^2)$$

as \({T\to+\infty}\). The result relies on Erd?s and Solovej’s characterisation of the spectrum of \({\mathcal{D}_{tB}}\) in terms of a family of Dirac operators on \({\mathbb{S}^2}\), together with information about the strong field localisation of the Aharonov–Casher zero modes of the latter.

     

Solutions of perturbed Schrödinger equations with critical nonlinearity

We consider the perturbed Schrödinger equation

$\left\{\begin{array}{ll}{- \varepsilon ^2 \Delta u + V(x)u = P(x)|u|^{p - 2} u + k(x)|u|^{2* - 2} u} &; {\text{for}}\, x \in {\mathbb{R}}^N\\ \qquad \qquad \quad {u(x) \rightarrow 0} &; \text{as}\, {|x| \rightarrow \infty} \end{array} \right.$

where \(N\geq 3, \ 2^*=2N/(N-2)\) is the Sobolev critical exponent, \(p\in (2, 2^*)\) , P(x) and K(x) are bounded positive functions. Under proper conditions on V we show that it has at least one positive solution provided that \(\varepsilon\leq{\mathcal{E}}\) ; for any \(m\in{\mathbb{N}}\) , it has m pairs of solutions if \(\varepsilon\leq{\mathcal{E}}_{m}\) ; and suppose there exists an orthogonal involution \(\tau:{\mathbb{R}}^{N}\to{\mathbb{R}}^{N}\) such that V(x), P(x) and K(x) are τ -invariant, then it has at least one pair of solutions which change sign exactly once provided that \(\varepsilon\leq{\mathcal{E}}\) , where \({\mathcal{E}}\) and \({\mathcal{E}}_{m}\) are sufficiently small positive numbers. Moreover, these solutions \(u_\varepsilon\to 0\) in \(H^1({\mathbb{R}}^N)\) as \(\varepsilon\to 0\) .

     

Nontrivial solution for Schrödinger–Poisson equations involving a fractional nonlocal operator via perturbation methods

This paper focuses on the following Schrödinger–Poisson equations involving a fractional nonlocal operator \({\left\{\begin{array}{ll}-\Delta u+u+\phi u=f(x,u),&{\rm in}\ \mathbb{R}^3,\\(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}\phi=u^2,\\lim_{|x|\to \infty}\phi(x)=0,&{\rm in}\ \mathbb{R}^3,\end{array}\right.}\) where \({\alpha \in (1,2]}\). Under certain assumptions, we obtain the existence of nontrivial solution of the above problem without compactness by using the methods of perturbation and the mountain pass theorem.     

The concentration behavior of ground state solutions for a fractional Schrödinger–Poisson system

In this paper, we study the following fractional Schrödinger–Poisson system

$$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \varepsilon ^{2s}(-\Delta )^s u +V(x)u+\phi u=K(x)|u|^{p-2}u,\,\,\text {in}~\mathbb {R}^3,\\ \\ \varepsilon ^{2s}(-\Delta )^s \phi =u^2,\,\,\text {in}~\mathbb {R}^3, \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$

(0.1)

where \(\varepsilon >0\) is a small parameter, \(\frac{3}{4}<s<1\), \(4<p<2_s^*:=\frac{6}{3-2s}\), \(V(x)\in C(\mathbb {R}^3)\cap L^\infty (\mathbb {R}^3)\) has positive global minimum, and \(K(x)\in C(\mathbb {R}^3)\cap L^\infty (\mathbb {R}^3)\) is positive and has global maximum. We prove the existence of a positive ground state solution by using variational methods for each \(\varepsilon >0\) sufficiently small, and we determine a concrete set related to the potentials V and K as the concentration position of these ground state solutions as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0\). Moreover, we considered some properties of these ground state solutions, such as convergence and decay estimate.

     

Infinitely many non-radial solutions for fractional Nirenberg problem

In this paper, the prescribed \(\sigma \)-curvature problem

$$\begin{aligned} P_{\sigma }^{g_0} u={\tilde{K}}(x)u^{\frac{N+2\sigma }{N-2\sigma }}, x\in {\mathbb {S}}^N,u>0 \end{aligned}$$

is considered. When \({\tilde{K}}(x)\) is some axis symmetric function on \({\mathbb {S}}^N\), by using singular perturbation method, it is proved that this problem possesses infinitely many non-radial solutions for \(0<\sigma \le 1\) and \(N> 2\sigma +2\).

     

Null controllability in large time of a parabolic equation involving the Grushin operator with an inverse-square potential

We prove the null controllability in large time of the following linear parabolic equation involving the Grushin operator with an inverse-square potential

$$u_t-\Delta_{x} u-|x|^{2}\Delta_{y}u-\frac{\mu}{|x|^2}u=v1_\omega$$

in a bounded domain \({\Omega=\Omega_1\times \Omega_2\subset \mathbb{R}^{N_1}\times \mathbb{R}^{N_2} (N_1\geq 3, N_2\geq 1}\)) intersecting the surface {x = 0} under an additive control supported in an open subset \({\omega=\omega_1\times \Omega_2}\) of \({\Omega}\).

     

On Lipschitz continuity of solutions of hyperbolic Poisson’s equation

In this paper, we investigate solutions of the hyperbolic Poisson equation \(\Delta _{h}u(x)=\psi (x)\), where \(\psi \in L^{\infty }(\mathbb {B}^{n}, {\mathbb R}^n)\) and

$$\begin{aligned} \Delta _{h}u(x)= (1-|x|^2)^2\Delta u(x)+2(n-2)\left( 1-|x|^2\right) \sum _{i=1}^{n} x_{i} \frac{\partial u}{\partial x_{i}}(x) \end{aligned}$$

is the hyperbolic Laplace operator in the n-dimensional space \(\mathbb {R}^n\) for \(n\ge 2\). We show that if \(n\ge 3\) and \(u\in C^{2}(\mathbb {B}^{n},{\mathbb R}^n) \cap C(\overline{\mathbb {B}^{n}},{\mathbb R}^n )\) is a solution to the hyperbolic Poisson equation, then it has the representation \(u=P_{h}[\phi ]-G_{ h}[\psi ]\) provided that \(u\mid _{\mathbb {S}^{n-1}}=\phi \) and \(\int _{\mathbb {B}^{n}}(1-|x|^{2})^{n-1} |\psi (x)|\,d\tau (x)<\infty \). Here \(P_{h}\) and \(G_{h}\) denote Poisson and Green integrals with respect to \(\Delta _{h}\), respectively. Furthermore, we prove that functions of the form \(u=P_{h}[\phi ]-G_{h}[\psi ]\) are Lipschitz continuous.

     

Multiplicity and bifurcation of positive solutions for nonhomogeneous semilinear fractional Laplacian problems

In this paper we consider the following nonhomogeneous semilinear fractional Laplacian problem

$$\begin{aligned} {\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta )^s u+u=\lambda (f(x,u)+h(x)) \,\, \text {in}\,\, \mathbb {R}^N,\\ u\in H^s(\mathbb {R}^N), u>0\,\, \text {in}\,\, \mathbb {R}^N, \end{array}\right. } \end{aligned}$$

where \(\lambda >0\) and \(\lim _{|x|\rightarrow \infty }f(x,u)=\overline{f}(u)\) uniformly on any compact subset of \([0,\infty )\). We prove that under suitable conditions on f and h, there exists \(0<\lambda ^*<+\infty \) such that the problem has at least two positive solutions if \(\lambda \in (0,\lambda ^*)\), a unique positive solution if \(\lambda =\lambda ^*\), and no solution if \(\lambda >\lambda ^*\). We also obtain the bifurcation of positive solutions for the problem at \((\lambda ^*,u^*)\) and further analyse the set of positive solutions.

     

Limit problems for a Fractional p-La placian as $${ p\to\infty}$$

The purpose of this work is the analysis of the solutions to the following problems related to the fractional p-Laplacian in a Lipschitzian bounded domain \({\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N}\),

$$\left\{\begin{array}{lll}-\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}\frac{|u(y)-u(x)|^{p-2}(u(y)-u(x))}{|x-y|^{\alpha p}}\;dy=f(x,u)\;\;&x\in \Omega,\\ u=g(x) &x\in\mathbb{R}^N\setminus \Omega,\end{array}\right.$$

where \({\alpha\in(0,1)}\) and the exponent p goes to infinity. In particular we will analyze the cases:

1. (i)
   \({f=f(x).}\)
    
2. (ii)
   \({f=f(u)=|u|^{\theta(p)-1} u \, {\rm with} \, 0 < \theta(p) < p -1 \, {\rm and} \, \lim_{p\to\infty}\frac{\theta(p)}{p-1}=\Theta < 1 \, {\rm with} \, g \geq 0.}\)
    

We show the convergence of the solutions to certain limit as \({p\to\infty}\) and identify the limit equation. In both cases, the limit problem is closely related to the Infinity Fractional Laplacian:

$$\mathcal{L}_\infty v(x)=\mathcal{L}_\infty^+ v(x)+\mathcal{L}_\infty^- v(x),$$

where

$$\mathcal{L}_\infty^+ v(x)=\sup_{y\in\mathbb{R}^N}\frac{v(y)-v(x)}{|y-x|^\alpha}, \quad \mathcal{L}_\infty^- v(x)=\inf_{y\in\mathbb{R}^N}\frac{v(y)-v(x)}{|y-x|^\alpha}.$$

     

Book reviews

We consider the following singularly perturbed nonlocal elliptic problem

$$\begin{aligned} -\left( \varepsilon ^{2}a+\varepsilon b\displaystyle \int _{\mathbb {R}^{3}}|\nabla u|^{2}dx\right) \Delta u+V(x)u=\displaystyle \varepsilon ^{\alpha -3}(W_{\alpha }(x)*|u|^{p})|u|^{p-2}u, \quad x\in \mathbb {R}^{3}, \end{aligned}$$

where \(\varepsilon >0\) is a parameter, \(a>0,b\ge 0\) are constants, \(\alpha \in (0,3)\), \(p\in [2, 6-\alpha )\), \(W_{\alpha }(x)\) is a convolution kernel and V(x) is an external potential satisfying some conditions. By using variational methods, we establish the existence and concentration of positive ground state solutions for the above equation.

     

Layered solutions for a fractional inhomogeneous Allen–Cahn equation

We consider the problem

$$\varepsilon^{2s} (-\partial_{xx})^s \tilde{u}(\tilde{x}) -V(\tilde{x})\tilde{u}(\tilde{x})(1-\tilde{u}^2(\tilde{x}))=0 \quad{\rm in} \mathbb{R},$$

where \({(-\partial_{xx})^s}\) denotes the usual fractional Laplace operator, \({\varepsilon > 0}\) is a small parameter and the smooth bounded function V satisfies \({{\rm inf}_{\tilde{x} \in \mathbb{R}}V(\tilde{x}) > 0}\). For \({s\in(\frac{1}{2},1)}\), we prove the existence of separate multi-layered solutions for any small \({\varepsilon}\), where the layers are located near any non-degenerate local maximal points and non-degenerate local minimal points of function V. We also prove the existence of clustering-layered solutions, and these clustering layers appear within a very small neighborhood of a local maximum point of V.

     

Existence and uniqueness for a class of multi-term fractional differential equations

In this paper, we consider the initial value problem for the nonlinear fractional differential equations

$$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{l@{\quad }l} D^\alpha u(t)=f(t,u(t),D^{\beta _1}u(t),\ldots ,D^{\beta _N}u(t)), \quad &{}t\in (0,1],\\ D^{\alpha -k}u(0)=0, \quad &{}k=1,2,\ldots ,n, \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$

where \(\alpha >\beta _1>\beta _2>\cdots \beta _N>0\), \(n=[\alpha ]+1\) for \(\alpha \notin \mathbb {N}\) and \(\alpha =n\) for \(\alpha \in \mathbb {N}\), \(\beta _j<1\) for any \(j\in \{1,2,\ldots ,N\}\), D is the standard Riemann–Liouville derivative and \(f:[0,1]\times \mathbb {R}^{N+1}\rightarrow \mathbb {R}\) is a given function. By means of Schauder fixed point theorem and Banach contraction principle, an existence result and a unique result for the solution are obtained,respectively. As an application, some examples are presented to illustrate the main results.

     

Monotonicity of solutions for some nonlocal elliptic problems in half-spaces

In this paper we consider classical solutions u of the semilinear fractional problem \((-\Delta )^s u = f(u)\) in \({\mathbb {R}}^N_+\) with \(u=0\) in \({\mathbb {R}}^N {\setminus } {\mathbb {R}}^N_+\), where \((-\Delta )^s\), \(0<s<1\), stands for the fractional laplacian, \(N\ge 2\), \({\mathbb {R}}^N_+=\{x=(x',x_N)\in {\mathbb {R}}^N{:}\ x_N>0\}\) is the half-space and \(f\in C^1\) is a given function. With no additional restriction on the function f, we show that bounded, nonnegative, nontrivial classical solutions are indeed positive in \({\mathbb {R}}^N_+\) and verify

$$\begin{aligned} \frac{\partial u}{\partial x_N}>0 \quad \hbox {in } {\mathbb {R}}^N_+. \end{aligned}$$

This is in contrast with previously known results for the local case \(s=1\), where nonnegative solutions which are not positive do exist and the monotonicity property above is not known to hold in general even for positive solutions when \(f(0)<0\).

     

Intersection properties of radial solutions and global bifurcation diagrams for supercritical quasilinear elliptic equations

We study the positive solution \({u(r,\rho)}\) of the quasilinear elliptic equation

$$\begin{cases}r^{-(\gamma-1)}(r^{\alpha}|u^{\prime}|^{\beta-1}u^{\prime})^{\prime}+|u|^{p-1}u=0, & 0 < r < \infty,\\ u(0) = \rho > 0,\ u^{\prime}(0)=0.\end{cases}$$

This class of differential operators includes the usual Laplace, m-Laplace, and k-Hessian operators in the space of radial functions. The equation has a singular positive solution u ^*(r) under certain conditions on \({\alpha}\), \({\beta}\), \({\gamma}\), and p. A generalized Joseph–Lundgren exponent, which we denote by \({p^*_{JL}}\), is obtained. We study the intersection numbers between \({u(r,\rho)}\) and u ^*(r) and between \({u(r,\rho_0)}\) and \({u(r,\rho_1)}\), and see that \({p^*_{JL}}\) plays an important role. We also determine the bifurcation diagram of the problem

$$\begin{cases}r^{-(\gamma-1)}(r^{\alpha}|u^{\prime}|^{\beta-1}u^{\prime})^{\prime} + \lambda(u+1)^p=0, & 0 < r < 1,\\ u(r) > 0, & 0 \le r < 1,\\ u^{\prime}(0)=0,\ u(1)=0.\end{cases}$$

The main technique used in the proofs is a phase plane analysis.

     

Least energy sign-changing solutions for a class of fourth order Kirchhoff-type equations in $$\mathbb {R}^{N}$$

In this article we study the problem

$$\begin{aligned} \Delta ^{2}u-\left( a+b\int _{\mathbb {R}^{N}}\left| \nabla u\right| ^{2}dx\right) \Delta u+V(x)u=\left| u\right| ^{p-2}u\ \text { in }\mathbb {R}^{N}, \end{aligned}$$

where \(\Delta ^{2}:=\Delta (\Delta )\) is the biharmonic operator, \(a,b>0\) are constants, \(N\le 7,\) \(p\in (4,2_{*})\) for \(2_{*}\) defined below, and \(V(x)\in C(\mathbb {R}^{N},\mathbb {R})\). Under appropriate assumptions on V(x), the existence of least energy sign-changing solution is obtained by combining the variational methods and the Nehari method.

     

Existence Result for a Superlinear Fractional Navier Boundary Value Problems

In this paper, we study the following fractional Navier boundary value problem

$$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{lllc} D^{\beta }(D^{\alpha }u)(x)=u(x)g(u(x)),\quad x\in (0,1), \\ \displaystyle \lim _{x\longrightarrow 0}x^{1-\beta }D^{\alpha }u(x)=-a,\quad \,\,u(1)=b, \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$

where \(\alpha ,\beta \in (0,1]\) such that \(\alpha +\beta >1\), \(D^{\beta }\) and \(D^{\alpha }\) stand for the standard Riemann–Liouville fractional derivatives and a, b are nonnegative constants such that \(a+b>0\). The function g is a nonnegative continuous function in \([0,\infty )\) that is required to satisfy some suitable integrability condition. Using estimates on the Green’s function and a perturbation argument, we prove the existence of a unique positive continuous solution, which behaves like the unique solution of the homogeneous problem.

     

Behaviour at the non-positive integers of Dirichlet series associated to polynomials of several variables

In this paper, we relate the special values at a non-positive integer \({\underline{\mathbf{s}}=(s_{1},\ldots, s_{r})= -\underline{\mathbf{N}}= (-N_{1},\ldots, -N_{r})}\) obtained by meromorphic continuation of the multiple Dirichlet series \({{Z(\underline{\mathbf{P}}, \underline{\mathbf{s}})=\sum_{\underline{m}\in {\mathbb{N}}^{*n}}{\frac{1}{\prod_{i=1}^{r}{P_{i}^{ s_{i}}(\underline{m})}}}}}\) to special values of the function \({Y(\underline{\mathbf{P}}, \underline{\mathbf{s}})=\int_{[1, +\infty[^{n}} {\prod_{i=1}^{r}{P_{i}^{- s_{i}}(\underline{\mathbf{x}})}\; d{\underline{\mathbf{x}}}}}\) where \({\underline{\mathbf{P}}=(P_{1},..., P_{r}),\; (r\geq 1)}\) are elliptic polynomials in “\({n}\) ” variables. We prove a simple relation between \({Z(\underline{\mathbf{P}}_{\underline{\mathbf{a}}}, -\underline{\mathbf{N}})}\) and \({Y(\underline{\mathbf{P}}_{\underline{\mathbf{a}}}, -\underline{\mathbf{N}})}\), such that for all \({\underline{\mathbf{a}} \in {\mathbb{R}}^{n}_{+}}\), we denote \({\underline{\mathbf{P}}_{\underline{\mathbf{a}}}:=(P_{1 \underline{\mathbf{a}}},\ldots, P_{r \underline{\mathbf{a}}})}\), where \({P_{i\;\underline{\mathbf{a}}}(\underline{\mathbf{x}}):= P_i(\underline{\mathbf{x}}+ \underline{\mathbf{a}})\; (1\leq i\leq r)}\) is the shifted polynomial.     

A Sharp Weak-Type $$(\infty ,\infty )$$ Inequality for the Hilbert Transform

The paper is devoted to sharp weak type \((\infty ,\infty )\) estimates for \({\mathcal {H}}^{\mathbb {T}}\) and \({\mathcal {H}}^{\mathbb {R}}\), the Hilbert transforms on the circle and real line, respectively. Specifically, it is proved that

$$\begin{aligned} \left\| {\mathcal {H}}^{\mathbb {T}}f\right\| _{W({\mathbb {T}})}\le \Vert f\Vert _{L^\infty ({\mathbb {T}})} \end{aligned}$$

and

$$\begin{aligned} \left\| {\mathcal {H}}^{\mathbb {R}}f\right\| _{W({\mathbb {R}})}\le \Vert f\Vert _{L^\infty ({\mathbb {R}})}, \end{aligned}$$

where \(W({\mathbb {T}})\) and \(W({\mathbb {R}})\) stand for the weak-\(L^\infty \) spaces introduced by Bennett, DeVore and Sharpley. In both estimates, the constant \(1\) on the right is shown to be the best possible.