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We establish some existence results for a class of critical $N$-Laplacian problems in a bounded domain in $\mathbb {R}^{N}$. In the absence of a suitable direct sum decomposition of the underlying Sobolev space to which the classical linking theorem can be applied, we use an abstract linking theorem based on the $\mathbb {Z}_2$-cohomological index to obtain a non-trivial critical point.
We prove the existence of nontrivial ground state solutions of the critical quasilinear Hénon equation $\displaystyle -\Delta _p u=|x|^{\alpha _1}|u|^{p^{*}(\alpha _1)-2}u-|x|^{\alpha _2}|u|^{p^{*}(\alpha _2)-2}u\ \ {\rm in}\ \mathbb {R}^{N}.$ It is a new problem in the sense that the signs of the coefficients of critical terms are opposite.
We consider steady states with mass constraint of the fourth-order thin-film equation with van der Waals force in a bounded domain which leads to a singular elliptic equation for the thickness with an unknown pressure term. By studying second-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation,
we prove the existence of infinitely many radially symmetric solutions. Also, we perform rigorous asymptotic analysis to identify the blow-up limit when the steady state is close to a constant solution and the blow-down limit when the maximum of the steady state goes to the infinity.
Steady-state diffusion in long axisymmetric structures is considered. The goal is to assess one-dimensional approximations by comparing them with axisymmetric eigenfunction expansions. Two problems are considered in detail: a finite tube with one end that is partly absorbing and partly reflecting; and two finite coaxial tubes with different cross-sectional radii joined together abruptly. Both problems may be modelled using effective boundary conditions, containing a parameter known as the trapping rate. We show that trapping rates depend on the lengths of the finite tubes (and that they decay slowly as these lengths increase) and we show how trapping rates are related to blockage coefficients, which are well known in the context of potential flow along tubes of infinite length.
First, we revisit the proof of the existence of an unbounded sequence of non-radial positive vector solutions of synchronized type obtained in S. Peng and Z. Wang [Segregated and synchronized vector solutions for nonlinear Schrödinger systems, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 208 (2013), 305–339] to give a point-wise estimate of the solutions. Taking advantage of these estimates, we then show a non-degeneracy result of the synchronized solutions in some suitable symmetric space by use of the locally Pohozaev identities. The main difficulties of BEC systems come from the interspecies interaction between the components, which never appear in the study of single equations. The idea used to estimate the coupling terms is inspired by the characterization of the Fermat points in the famous Fermat problem, which is the main novelty of this paper.
We prove the existence of a solution for a class of activator–inhibitor system of type
$- \Delta u +u = f(u) -v$
,
$-\Delta v+ v=u$
in
$\mathbb{R}^{N}$
. The function f is a general nonlinearity which can grow polynomially in dimension
$N\geq 3$
or exponentiallly if
$N=2$
. We are able to treat f when it has critical growth corresponding to the Sobolev space we work with. We transform the system into an equation with a nonlocal term. We find a critical point of the corresponding energy functional defined in the space of functions with norm endowed by a scalar product that takes into account such nonlocal term. For that matter, and due to the lack of compactness, we deal with weak convergent minimizing sequences and sequences of Lagrange multipliers of an action minima problem.
The Helmholtz equation
$-\nabla\cdot (a\nabla u) - \omega^2 u = f$
is considered in an unbounded wave guide
$\Omega := \mathbb{R} \times S \subset \mathbb{R}^d$
,
$S\subset \mathbb{R}^{d-1}$
a bounded domain. The coefficient a is strictly elliptic and either periodic in the unbounded direction
$x_1 \in \mathbb{R}$
or periodic outside a compact subset; in the latter case, two different periodic media can be used in the two unbounded directions. For non-singular frequencies
$\omega$
, we show the existence of a solution u. While previous proofs of such results were based on analyticity arguments within operator theory, here, only energy methods are used.
\[ \begin{cases} \epsilon^{2}\mbox{div}(a(x)\nabla u(x))+f(x,u)=0 & \text{ in }\Omega,\\ \frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu}=0 & \text{ on }\partial \Omega,\\ \end{cases} \]
where $\Omega$ is a smooth and bounded domain in general dimensional space $\mathbb {R}^{N}$, $\epsilon >0$ is a small parameter and function $a$ is positive. We respectively obtain the locations of interior transition layers of the solutions of the above transition problems that are $L^{1}$-local minimizer and global minimizer of the associated energy functional.
We study nonlinear measure data elliptic problems involving the operator of generalized Orlicz growth. Our framework embraces reflexive Orlicz spaces, as well as natural variants of variable exponent and double-phase spaces. Approximable and renormalized solutions are proven to exist and coincide for arbitrary measure datum and to be unique when for a class of data being diffuse with respect to a relevant nonstandard capacity. A capacitary characterization of diffuse measures is provided.
We study the $\Gamma$-convergence of nonconvex vectorial integral functionals whose integrands satisfy possibly degenerate growth and coercivity conditions. The latter involve suitable scale-dependent weight functions. We prove that under appropriate uniform integrability conditions on the weight functions, which shall belong to a Muckenhoupt class, the corresponding functionals $\Gamma$-converge, up to subsequences, to a degenerate integral functional defined on a limit weighted Sobolev space. The general analysis is then applied to the case of random stationary integrands and weights to prove a stochastic homogenization result for the corresponding functionals.
We consider the following class of quasilinear Schrödinger equations proposed in plasma physics and nonlinear optics $-\Delta u+V(x)u+\frac {\kappa }{2}[\Delta (u^{2})]u=h(u)$ in the whole two-dimensional Euclidean space. We establish the existence and qualitative properties of standing wave solutions for a broader class of nonlinear terms $h(s)$ with the critical exponential growth. We apply the dual approach to obtain solutions in the usual Sobolev space $H^{1}(\mathbb {R}^{2})$ when the parameter $\kappa >0$ is sufficiently small. Minimax techniques, Trudinger–Moser inequality and the Nash–Moser iteration method play an essential role in establishing our results.
We study stationary solutions to the Keller–Segel equation on curved planes. We prove the necessity of the mass being $8 \pi$ and a sharp decay bound. Notably, our results do not require the solutions to have a finite second moment, and thus are novel already in the flat case. Furthermore, we provide a correspondence between stationary solutions to the static Keller–Segel equation on curved planes and positively curved Riemannian metrics on the sphere. We use this duality to show the nonexistence of solutions in certain situations. In particular, we show the existence of metrics, arbitrarily close to the flat one on the plane, that do not support stationary solutions to the static Keller–Segel equation (with any mass). Finally, as a complementary result, we prove a curved version of the logarithmic Hardy–Littlewood–Sobolev inequality and use it to show that the Keller–Segel free energy is bounded from below exactly when the mass is $8 \pi$, even in the curved case.
We investigate the equilibrium configurations of closed planar elastic curves of fixed length, whose stiffness, also known as the bending rigidity, depends on an additional density variable. The underlying variational model relies on the minimisation of a bending energy with respect to shape and density and can be considered as a one-dimensional analogue of the Canham–Helfrich model for heterogeneous biological membranes. We present a generalised Euler–Bernoulli elastica functional featuring a density-dependent stiffness coefficient. In order to treat the inherent nonconvexity of the problem, we introduce an additional length scale in the model by means of a density gradient term. We derive the system of Euler–Lagrange equations and study the bifurcation structure of solutions with respect to the model parameters. Both analytical and numerical results are presented.
In this paper, we discuss the solvability of the p-k-Hessian inequality
$\sigma _{k}^{\frac 1k} ( \lambda ( D_{i} (|Du|^{p-2}$
$ D_{j}u ) ) ) \geq f(u)$
on the entire space
$\mathbb {R}^{n}$
and provide a necessary and sufficient condition, which can be regarded as a generalized Keller–Osserman condition. Furthermore, we obtain the optimal regularity of solution.
In this paper, we prove existence results of a one-dimensional periodic solution to equations with the fractional Laplacian of order $s\in (1/2,1)$, singular nonlinearity and gradient term under various situations, including nonlocal contra-part of classical Lienard vector equations, as well other nonlocal versions of classical results know only in the context of second-order ODE. Our proofs are based on degree theory and Perron's method, so before that we need to establish a variety of priori estimates under different assumptions on the nonlinearities appearing in the equations. Besides, we obtain also multiplicity results in a regime where a priori bounds are lost and bifurcation from infinity occurs.
In this paper, we establish an infinite series expansion of Leray–Trudinger inequality, which is closely related with Hardy inequality and Moser Trudinger inequality. Our result extends early results obtained by Mallick and Tintarev [A. Mallick and C. Tintarev. An improved Leray-Trudinger inequality. Commun. Contemp. Math. 20 (2018), 17501034. OP 21] to the case with many logs. It should be pointed out that our result is about series expansion of Hardy inequality under the case $p=n$, which case is not considered by Gkikas and Psaradakis in [K. T. Gkikas and G. Psaradakis. Optimal non-homogeneous improvements for the series expansion of Hardy's inequality. Commun. Contemp. Math. doi:10.1142/S0219199721500310]. However, we can't obtain the optimal form by our method.
In this paper, we develop an extremely simple method to establish the sharpened Adams-type inequalities on higher-order Sobolev spaces $W^{m,\frac {n}{m}}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ in the entire space $\mathbb {R}^n$, which can be stated as follows: Given $\Phi \left ( t\right ) =e^{t}-\underset {j=0}{\overset {n-2}{\sum }} \frac {t^{j}}{j!}$ and the Adams sharp constant $\beta _{n,m}$. Then,
for any $0<\alpha <1$. Furthermore, we construct a proper test function sequence to derive the sharpness of the exponent $\alpha $ of the above Adams inequalities. Namely, we will show that if $\alpha \ge 1$, then the above supremum is infinite.
Our argument avoids applying the complicated blow-up analysis often used in the literature to deal with such sharpened inequalities.
where $f$ satisfies a uniform VMO condition with respect to the $x$-variable and is continuous with respect to ${\bf u}$. The growth condition with respect to the gradient variable is assumed a general one.
In this paper we study a normalized anisotropic Gauss curvature flow of strictly convex, closed hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space. We prove that the flow exists for all time and converges smoothly to the unique, strictly convex solution of a Monge-Ampère type equation and we obtain a new existence result of solutions to the Dual Orlicz-Minkowski problem for smooth measures, especially for even smooth measures.