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Ground states of the defocusing NLSE with a point interaction

Analysis of PDEs 2025-12-09 v2

Abstract

Suppose that either (i) N=2N = 2, αR\alpha \in \mathbb{R} and p>2p > 2 or (ii) N=3N = 3, α<0\alpha < 0 and 2<p<32 < p < 3. We prove that there exists an explicitly computable μ0=μ0(N,α,p)>0\mu_0 = \mu_0 (N, \alpha, p) > 0 such that if 0<μ<μ00 < \mu < \mu_0, then the following normalized semilinear elliptic problem with a point interaction admits ground states: {Δαu+ωu+uup2=0in RN;uL22=μ, \begin{cases} - \Delta_\alpha u + \omega u + u |u|^{p - 2} = 0 &\text{in} ~ \mathbb{R}^N; \\ \|u\|_{\mathscr{L}^2}^2 = \mu, \end{cases} where Δα- \Delta_\alpha denotes the Laplacian of point interaction (centered at the origin) with inverse scattering length 2(N1)πα- 2 (N - 1) \pi \alpha and we want to solve for ωR\omega \in \mathbb{R}, u ⁣:RNRu \colon \mathbb{R}^N \to \mathbb{R}. We remark that this kind of solutions does not exist in the framework of the defocusing NLSE without a point interaction.

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@article{arxiv.2511.12593,
  title  = {Ground states of the defocusing NLSE with a point interaction},
  author = {Gustavo de Paula Ramos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.12593},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Irrecoverable failure in proposed proof. We apologize for the interested readers