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A class of equations with three solutions

Analysis of PDEs 2020-10-02 v4

Abstract

Here is one of the results obtained in this paper: Let ΩRn\Omega\subset {\bf R}^n be a smooth bounded domain, let q>1q>1, with q<n+2n2q<{{n+2}\over {n-2}} if n3n\geq 3 and let λ1\lambda_1 be the first eigenvalue of the problem \cases{-\Delta u=\lambda u & in $\Omega$ \cr & \cr u=0 & on $\partial\Omega$\ .\cr} Then, for every λ>λ1\lambda>\lambda_1 and for every convex set SL(Ω)S\subseteq L^{\infty}(\Omega) dense in L2(Ω)L^2(\Omega), there exists αS\alpha\in S such that the problem \cases{-\Delta u=\lambda(u^+-(u^+)^q)+\alpha(x) & in $\Omega$ \cr & \cr u=0 & on $\partial\Omega$\cr} has at least three weak solutions, two of which are global minima in H01(Ω)H^1_0(\Omega) of the functional u12Ωu(x)2dxλΩ(12u+(x)21q+1u+(x)q+1)dxΩα(x)u(x)dx u\to {{1}\over {2}}\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u(x)|^2dx-\lambda\int_{\Omega}\left ({{1}\over {2}}|u^+(x)|^2-{{1}\over {q+1}}|u^+(x)|^{q+1}\right )dx-\int_{\Omega}\alpha(x)u(x)dx\ where u+=max{u,0}u^+=\max\{u,0\}.

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@article{arxiv.2003.00332,
  title  = {A class of equations with three solutions},
  author = {Biagio Ricceri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.00332},
  year   = {2020}
}
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