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A scalar field equation on hyperbolic space with indefinite sign nonlinearity

Analysis of PDEs 2026-05-07 v1

Abstract

In this article, we study threshold phenomena for the semilinear double-power elliptic equation ΔBNuλu=up1uuq1u,uH1(BN),-\Delta_{\mathbb{B}^N} u - \lambda u = |u|^{p-1}u - |u|^{q-1}u, \quad u \in H^1(\mathbb{B}^N), on the hyperbolic space BN\mathbb{B}^N for N3N \ge 3. For parameters 1<p211 < p \le 2^*-1 (though we occasionally allow for supercritical exponents) and q>0q > 0, we seek to identify the optimal spectral regimes for λR\lambda \in \mathbb{R} that delineate the existence and non-existence of positive-energy solutions. We achieve a complete resolution of these thresholds across all exponent configurations: p<qp < q, 0<q<1<p0 < q < 1 < p, and 1<q<p1 < q < p. Our results demonstrate that the boundary separating these regimes is governed by an explicit critical spectral parameter, which depends on pp, qq, and NN in the regime where p<qp < q, but depends solely on NN in the remaining cases.

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@article{arxiv.2605.04687,
  title  = {A scalar field equation on hyperbolic space with indefinite sign nonlinearity},
  author = {Debabrata Karmakar and Atanu Manna and Bhakti Bhusan Manna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.04687},
  year   = {2026}
}
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