Multiplicity and bifurcation of positive solutions for nonhomogeneous semilinear elliptic problems

In this paper we consider the following problem

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On the stability of the positive radial steady states for a semilinear Cauchy problem

This paper is a contribution to the analysis of the Cauchy problem (0.1)$\{\begin{array}{c}\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}=\Delta u+\sum _{i=1}^k{c}_i{\left|x\right|}^{l_i}{u}^{p_i}\text{in}{\mathbb{R}}^n\times (0,T)\text{,}\hfill \\ u(x,0)=\phi \left(x\right)\text{in}{\mathbb{R}}^n\text{,}\hfill \end{array}$ with initial function $\phi \not\equiv 0$. The stability and asymptotic stability of the positive radial steady states, which are positive solutions of (0.2)$\Delta u+\sum _{i=1}^k{c}_i{\left|x\right|}^{l_i}{u}^{p_i}=0\text{,}$ have been discussed with $\phi$ in weighted Banach spaces.     

On upper bounds for positive solutions of semilinear equations

Suppose that E is a bounded domain of class C^2,λ in and L is a uniformly elliptic operator in E. The set of all positive solutions of the equation Lu=ψ(u) in E was investigated by a number of authors for various classes of functions ψ. In Dynkin and Kuznetsov (Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 51 (1998) 897) we defined, for every Borel subset Γ of ∂E, two such solutions u_Γ?w_Γ. We also introduced a class of solutions u_ν in 1-1 correspondence with a certain class of σ-finite measures ν on ∂E. With every we associated a pair (Γ,ν) where Γ is a Borel subset of ∂E and . We called this pair the fine boundary trace of u and we denoted in tr(u).Let u⊕v stand for the maximal solution dominated by u+v. We say that u belongs to the class if the condition tr(u)=(Γ,ν) implies that u?w_Γ⊕u_ν and we say that u belongs to if the condition tr(u)=(Γ,ν) implies that u?u_Γ⊕u_ν.It was proved in Dynkin and Kuznetsov (1998) that, under minimal assumptions on L and ψ, the class contains all bounded domains. It follows from results of Mselati (Thése de Doctorat de l'Université Paris 6, 2002; C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I 332 (2002); Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. (2003), to appear), that all E of the class C⁴ belong to where Δ is the Laplacian and ψ(u)=u². [Mselati proved that, in his case, u_Γ=w_Γ and therefore the condition tr(u)=(Γ,ν) implies u=u_Γ⊕u_ν=w_Γ⊕u_ν.]By modifying Mselati's arguments, we extend his result to ψ(u)=u^α with 1<α?2 and all bounded domains of class C^2,λ.We start from proving a general localization theorem: under broad assumptions on L, ψ if, for every y∈∂E there exists a domain such that E′⊂E and ∂E∩∂E′ contains a neighborhood of y in ∂E.     

Wavelet moment method for the Cauchy problem for the Helmholtz equation

The paper is concerned with the problem of reconstruction of acoustic or electromagnetic field from inexact data given on an open part of the boundary of a given domain. A regularization concept is presented for the moment problem that is equivalent to a Cauchy problem for the Helmholtz equation. A method of regularization by projection with application of the Meyer wavelet subspaces is introduced and analyzed. The derived formula, describing the projection level in terms of the error bound of the inexact Cauchy data, allows us to prove the convergence and stability of the method.     

On the existence of positive solutions for semilinear elliptic equations with Neumann boundary conditions

Summary We give sufficient conditions for the existence of positive solutions to some semilinear elliptic equations in unbounded Lipschitz domainsD ^d (d3), having compact boundary, with nonlinear Neumann boundary conditions on the boundary ofD. For this we use an implicit probabilistic representation, Schauder's fixed point theorem, and a recently proved Sobolev inequality forW ^1,2(D). Special cases include equations arising from the study of pattern formation in various models in mathematical biology and from problems in geometry concerning the conformal deformation of metrics.Research supported in part by NSF Grants DMS 8657483 and GER 9023335This article was processed by the authors using the style filepljourlm from Springer-Verlag.     

On a semilinear elliptic problem without (PS) condition

An existence result for semilinear elliptic problems whose associated functionals do not satisfy a Palais-Smale condition is proved. The nonlinearity of our problem fits none of the conditions in Ambrosetti and Rabinowitz (J. Funct. Anal. 14 (1973) 349), de Figueiredo et al. (J. Math. Pures Appl. 61 (1982) 41) and Gidas and Spruck (Comm. Part. Diff. Eq. 6 (1981) 883). Some truncation happens to be essential, and in the argument some new results on Liouville-type theorems are established.     

Entire solutions for a semilinear fourth order elliptic problem with exponential nonlinearity

We investigate entire radial solutions of the semilinear biharmonic equation Δ²u=λexp(u) in Rn, n?5, λ>0 being a parameter. We show that singular radial solutions of the corresponding Dirichlet problem in the unit ball cannot be extended as solutions of the equation to the whole of Rn. In particular, they cannot be expanded as power series in the natural variable s=log|x|. Next, we prove the existence of infinitely many entire regular radial solutions. They all diverge to −∞ as |x|→∞ and we specify their asymptotic behaviour. As in the case with power-type nonlinearities [F. Gazzola, H.-Ch. Grunau, Radial entire solutions for supercritical biharmonic equations, Math. Ann. 334 (2006) 905-936], the entire singular solution x?−4log|x| plays the role of a separatrix in the bifurcation picture. Finally, a technique for the computer assisted study of a broad class of equations is developed. It is applied to obtain a computer assisted proof of the underlying dynamical behaviour for the bifurcation diagram of a corresponding autonomous system of ODEs, in the case n=5.     

On the existence of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions

Research supported in part by NSF Grants DMS 8657483 and GER 9023335     

On the existence of some new positive interior spike solutions to a semilinear Neumann problem

In this paper we are concerned with the following Neumann problem

     

Multiplicity of positive solutions for a singular and critical problem

In this paper, we study the following singular, critical elliptic problem :

     

Interior estimates for some semilinear elliptic problem with critical nonlinearity

We study compactness properties for solutions of a semilinear elliptic equation with critical nonlinearity. For high dimensions, we are able to show that any solutions sequence with uniformly bounded energy is uniformly bounded in the interior of the domain. In particular, singularly perturbed Neumann equations admit pointwise concentration phenomena only at the boundary.     

A uniqueness result for a semilinear elliptic problem: A computer-assisted proof

Starting with the famous article [A. Gidas, W.M. Ni, L. Nirenberg, Symmetry and related properties via the maximum principle, Comm. Math. Phys. 68 (1979) 209-243], many papers have been devoted to the uniqueness question for positive solutions of −Δu=λu+up in Ω, u=0 on ∂Ω, where p>1 and λ ranges between 0 and the first Dirichlet eigenvalue λ₁(Ω) of −Δ. For the case when Ω is a ball, uniqueness could be proved, mainly by ODE techniques. But very little is known when Ω is not a ball, and then only for λ=0. In this article, we prove uniqueness, for all λ∈[0,λ₁(Ω)), in the case Ω=²(0,1) and p=2. This constitutes the first positive answer to the uniqueness question in a domain different from a ball. Our proof makes heavy use of computer assistance: we compute a branch of approximate solutions and prove existence of a true solution branch close to it, using fixed point techniques. By eigenvalue enclosure methods, and an additional analytical argument for λ close to λ₁(Ω), we deduce the non-degeneracy of all solutions along this branch, whence uniqueness follows from the known bifurcation structure of the problem.     

On the Cauchy problem for integro-differential operators in Sobolev classes and the martingale problem

The existence and uniqueness in Sobolev spaces of solutions of the Cauchy problem to parabolic integro-differential equation with variable coefficients of the order α∈(0,2)$\alpha \in (0,2)$ is investigated. The principal part of the operator has kernel m(t,x,y)/|y|^d+α$m(t,x,y)/{|y|}^{d+\alpha }$ with a bounded nondegenerate m, Hölder in x and measurable in y. The lower order part has bounded and measurable coefficients. The result is applied to prove the existence and uniqueness of the corresponding martingale problem.     

A semilinear elliptic problem on unbounded domains with reverse penalty

In the well-known work of P.-L. Lions [The concentration–compactness principle in the calculus of variations, The locally compact case, part 1. Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré, Analyse Non Linéaire 1 (1984) 109–1453] existence of positive solutions to the equation -Δu+u=b(x)u^p-1$-\mathrm{\Delta }u+u=b(x)u^{p-1}$, u>0$u>0$, u∈H¹(R^N)$u\in H^1({\mathbb{R}}^N)$, p∈(2,2N/(N-2))$p\in (2,2N/(N-2))$ was proved under assumption b(x)?_b∞?_lim|x|→∞b(x)$b(x)?b_{\infty }?{\lim }_{\left|x\right|\to \infty }b(x)$. In this paper we prove the existence for certain functions b   satisfying the reverse inequality b(x)<_b∞$b(x)<b_{\infty }$. For any periodic lattice L   in R^N${\mathbb{R}}^N$ and for any b∈C(R^N)$b\in C({\mathbb{R}}^N)$ satisfying b(x)<_b∞$b(x)<b_{\infty }$, _b∞>0$b_{\infty }>0$, there is a finite set Y⊂L$Y\subset L$ and a convex combination b^Y$b^Y$ of b(·-y)$b(·-y)$, y∈Y$y\in Y$, such that the problem -Δu+u=b^Y(x)u^p-1$-\mathrm{\Delta }u+u=b^Y(x)u^{p-1}$ has a positive solution u∈H¹(R^N)$u\in H^1({\mathbb{R}}^N)$.