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Infinitely many positive solutions of nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with non-symmetric potentials

Analysis of PDEs 2013-09-30 v1

Abstract

We consider the standing-wave problem for a nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation, corresponding to the semilinear elliptic problem \begin{equation*} -\Delta u+V(x)u=|u|^{p-1}u,\ u\in H^1(\mathbb{R}^2), \end{equation*} where V(x)V(x) is a uniformly positive potential and p>1p>1. Assuming that \begin{equation*} V(x)=V_\infty+\frac{a}{|x|^m}+O\Big(\frac{1}{|x|^{m+\sigma}}\Big),\ \text{as}\ |x|\rightarrow+\infty, %\tag{V2V2} \end{equation*} for instance if p>2p>2, m>2m>2 and σ>1\sigma>1 we prove the existence of infinitely many positive solutions. If V(x)V(x) is radially symmetric, this result was proved in \cite{WY-10}. The proof without symmetries is much more difficult, and for that we develop a new {\em intermediate Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction method}, which is a compromise between the finite and infinite dimensional versions of it.

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@article{arxiv.1309.7196,
  title  = {Infinitely many positive solutions of nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with non-symmetric potentials},
  author = {Manuel del Pino and Juncheng Wei and Wei Yao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.7196},
  year   = {2013}
}

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