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ON SCHRÖDINGER EQUATIONS WITH INDEFINITE NONLINEARITIES

Part of: Elliptic equations and systems Partial differential equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

JING LONG  and
JIANFU YANG
JING LONG
Affiliation:
Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 71010, Wuhan 430071 Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China (email: alongjing@yahoo.com.cn)
JIANFU YANG*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330022, People’s Republic of China (email: jfyang_2000@yahoo.com)
*
✉For correspondence; e-mail: jfyang_2000@yahoo.com
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Abstract

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In this paper we consider the problem of finding standing waves – solutions to nonlinear Schrödinger equations with vanishing potential and sign-changing nonlinearities. This involves searching for solutions of the problem (1)We show that the problem has a solution, and the maximum point of the solution is concentrated on a minimum point of some function as ε→0.

Keywords

Schrödinger equationweighted Sobolev spaceconcentration

MSC classification

Secondary: 35J20: Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations 35B40: Asymptotic behavior of solutions
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 79 , Issue 1 , February 2009 , pp. 115 - 128
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2009

Footnotes

This work was supported by National Natural Sciences Foundations of China, No: 10571175 and 10631030.

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