SIGN-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR SCHRODINGER EQUATIONS WITH VANISHING AND SIGN-CHANGING POTENTIALS

In this article, we study the existence of sign-changing solutions for the following SchrSdinger equation
-△u ＋ λV（x）u = K（x）｜u｜^p-2u x∈R^N, u→0 as ｜x｜→ ＋∞,
2N where N ≥ 3, λ〉 0 is a parameter, 2 〈 p 〈 2N/N-2, and the potentials V（x） and K（x） satisfy some suitable conditions. By using the method based on invariant sets of the descending flow, we obtain the existence of a positive ground state solution and a ground state sign-changing solution of the above equation for small λ, which is a complement of the results obtained by Wang and Zhou in [J. Math. Phys. 52, 113704, 2011].     

Sign-changing solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations

In this survey article, we recall some known results on existence and multiplicity of sign-changing solutions of elliptic equations. Methods for obtaining sign-changing solutions developed in the last two decades will also be briefly revisited.      

On the existence of signed and sign-changing solutions for a class of superlinear Schrödinger equations

This paper deals with a semilinear Schrödinger equation whose nonlinear term involves a positive parameter λ and a real function f(u) which satisfies a superlinear growth condition just in a neighborhood of zero. By proving an a priori estimate (for a suitable class of solutions) we are able to avoid further restrictions on the behavior of f(u) at infinity in order to prove, for λ sufficiently large, the existence of one-sign and sign-changing solutions. Minimax methods are employed to establish this result.     

Semiclassical states for nonlinear Schrödinger equations with sign-changing potentials

We establish the existence and multiplicity of semiclassical bound states of the following nonlinear Schrödinger equation:

     

Nonexistence of sign-changing solutions for some elliptic and parabolic inequalities

We establish nonexistence of nontrivial solutions (including sign-changing ones) for some partial differential inequalities of elliptic and parabolic type containing nonlinear terms that depend on the positive and negative part of the sought function in different ways. Systems of elliptic inequalities with similar structure are also considered. The proofs are based on the test function method.     

Existence of periodic solutions for Hamiltonian systems with super-linear and sign-changing nonlinearities

In this paper, we consider the existence of periodic solutions for the super quadratic second order Hamiltonian system, and primitive functions of nonlinearities are allowed to be sign-changing. By using some weaker conditions, our result extends and improves some existed results in the literature.     

Existence and multiplicity of solutions for elliptic equations with jumping nonlinearities

In this paper we are concerned with a semilinear elliptic Dirichlet problem with jumping nonlinearity and, using a completely variational method, we show that the number of solutions may be arbitrarily large provided the number of jumped eigenvalues is large enough. In order to prove this fact, we show that for every positive integer k, when a suitable parameter is large enough, there exists a solution which presents k peaks. Under the assumptions we consider in this paper, new (unexpected) phenomena are observed in the study of this problem and new methods are required to construct the k-peaks solutions and describe their asymptotic behavior (weak limits of the rescaled solutions, localization of the concentration points of the peaks, asymptotic profile of the rescaled peaks, etc.).     

Multiple sign-changing solutions for a class of semilinear elliptic equations in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$

In this paper, we study the following semilinear elliptic equations $$-\triangle u+V(x)u=f(x,u), \ \ x\in \mathbb{R}^{N},$$ where $V\in C(\mathbb{R}^{N}, \mathbb{R})$ and $f\in C(\mathbb{R}^{N}\times\mathbb{R}, \mathbb{R})$. Under some suitable conditions, we prove that the equation has three solutions of mountain pass type: one positive, one negative, and sign-changing. Furthermore, if $f$ is odd with respect to its second variable, this problem has infinitely many sign-changing solutions.     

Positive solutions for some Schrödinger equations having partially periodic potentials

This paper is concerned with the problem of finding positive solutions of the equation −Δu+(a_∞+a(x))u=|u|^q−2u, where q is subcritical, Ω is either RN or an unbounded domain which is periodic in the first p coordinates and whose complement is contained in a cylinder , a_∞>0, a∈C(RN,R) is periodic in the first p coordinates, infx∈RN(a_∞+a(x))>0 and a(x^′,x^″)→0 as |x^″|→∞ uniformly in x^′. The cases a?0 and a?0 are considered and it is shown that, under appropriate assumptions on a, the problem has one solution in the first case and p+1 solutions in the second case when p?N−2.     

Existence of sign-changing solutions for the p-Laplacian equation from linking type theorem

In this paper, the existence of sign-changing solutions for p-Laplacian equation is obtained via a new linking theorem.