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.     

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 $\lambda \to 0^{+}$.     

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 $|u{|}^{q?2}u$.     

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 ${\mathbb{R}}^4$.     

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 $t\to \infty$.     

Phase transition layers with boundary intersection for an inhomogeneous Allen–Cahn equation

We consider the nonlinear problem of inhomogeneous Allen–Cahn equation

${?}^2\mathrm{\Delta }u+V(y)u(1?u^2)=0\text{in}\mathrm{\Omega },\frac{?u}{?\nu }=0\text{on}?\mathrm{\Omega },$

where Ω is a bounded domain in ${\mathbb{R}}^2$ with smooth boundary, ? is a small positive parameter, ν denotes the unit outward normal of ?Ω, V is a positive smooth function on $\overline{\mathrm{\Omega }}$. Let Γ be a curve intersecting orthogonally with ?Ω at exactly two points and dividing Ω into two parts. Moreover, Γ satisfies stationary and non-degenerate conditions with respect to the functional ${\int }_{\mathrm{\Gamma }}{V}^{1/2}$. We can prove that there exists a solution $u_{?}$ such that: as $?\to 0$, $u_{?}$ approaches +1 in one part of Ω, while tends to ?1 in the other part, except a small neighborhood of Γ.     

On the existence of weak solutions of semilinear elliptic equations and systems with Hardy potentials

Let $\mathrm{\Omega }?{\mathbb{R}}^N$ ($N\ge 3$) be a bounded $C^2$ domain and $\delta (x)=\mathrm{dist}(x,?\mathrm{\Omega })$. Put $L_{\mu }=\mathrm{\Delta }+\frac{\mu }{{\delta }^2}$ with $\mu >0$. In this paper, we provide various necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of weak solutions to

$?L_{\mu }u=u^p+\tau \text{in }\mathrm{\Omega },u=\nu \text{on }?\mathrm{\Omega },$

where $\mu >0$, $p>0$, τ and ν are measures on Ω and ?Ω respectively. We then establish existence results for the system

$\{\begin{array}{cc}\hfill & ?L_{\mu }u=?v^p+\tau \text{in }\mathrm{\Omega },\hfill \\ \hfill & ?L_{\mu }v=?u^{\stackrel{?}{p}}+\stackrel{?}{\tau }\text{in }\mathrm{\Omega },\hfill \\ \hfill & u=\nu ,v=\stackrel{?}{\nu }\text{on }?\mathrm{\Omega },\hfill \end{array}$

where $?=\pm 1$, $p>0$, $\stackrel{?}{p}>0$, τ and $\stackrel{?}{\tau }$ are measures on Ω, ν and $\stackrel{?}{\nu }$ are measures on ?Ω. We also deal with elliptic systems where the nonlinearities are more general.     

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.     

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.     

Global solvability and stabilization in a two-dimensional cross-diffusion system modeling urban crime propagation

The system$\{\begin{array}{c}{u}_t=\mathrm{\Delta }u?\chi \mathrm{?}?\left(\frac{u}{v}\mathrm{?}v\right)?uv+B_1(x,t),\hfill \\ v_t=\mathrm{\Delta }v+uv?v+B_2(x,t),\hfill \end{array}(?)$ is considered in a disk $\mathrm{\Omega }?{\mathbb{R}}^2$, with a positive parameter χ and given nonnegative and suitably regular functions $B_1$ and $B_2$ defined on $\mathrm{\Omega }\times (0,\infty )$. In the particular version obtained when $\chi =2$, (?) was proposed in [31] as a model for crime propagation in urban regions.Within a suitable generalized framework, it is shown that under mild assumptions on the parameter functions and the initial data the no-flux initial-boundary value problem for (?) possesses at least one global solution in the case when all model ingredients are radially symmetric with respect to the center of Ω. Moreover, under an additional hypothesis on stabilization of the given external source terms in both equations, these solutions are shown to approach the solution of an elliptic boundary value problem in an appropriate sense.The analysis is based on deriving a priori estimates for a family of approximate problems, in a first step achieving some spatially global but weak initial regularity information which in a series of spatially localized arguments is thereafter successively improved.To the best of our knowledge, this is the first result on global existence of solutions to the two-dimensional version of the full original system (?) for arbitrarily large values of χ.     

Remarks about a generalized pseudo-relativistic Hartree equation

With appropriate hypotheses on the nonlinearity f, we prove the existence of a ground state solution u for the problem

${(?\mathrm{\Delta }+m^2)}^{\sigma }u+Vu=(W?F(u))f(u)\text{in }{\mathbb{R}}^N,$

where $0<\sigma <1$, V is a bounded continuous potential and F the primitive of f. We also show results about the regularity of any solution of this problem.     

Existence for evolutionary problems with linear growth by stability methods

We establish that solutions to the Cauchy–Dirichlet problem

${?}_{t}u?\mathrm{div}(D_{\xi }f(x,Du))=0$

for functionals $f:\mathrm{\Omega }\times {\mathbb{R}}^{N\times n}\to [0,\infty )$ of linear growth can be obtained as limits of solutions to flows with p-growth in the limit $p\downarrow 1$. The result can be interpreted on the one hand as a stability result. On the other hand it provides an existence result for general flows with linear growth.     

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 $D_2=\frac{2N+8?Np}{4N(p?2)}$.     

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.