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Infinitely many sign-changing solutions for Kirchhoff type problems in $\mathbb{R}^3$

Analysis of PDEs 2019-07-04 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the following nonlinear Kirchhoff type problem: {(a+bR3u2)Δu+V(x)u=f(u),inR3,uH1(R3), \left\{\begin{array}{lcl}-\left(a+b\displaystyle\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}|\nabla u|^2\right)\Delta u+V(x)u=f(u), & \textrm{in}\,\,\mathbb{R}^3,\\ u\in H^1(\mathbb{R}^3), \end{array}\right. where a,b>0a,b>0 are constants, the nonlinearity ff is superlinear at infinity with subcritical growth and VV is continuous and coercive. For the case when ff is odd in uu we obtain infinitely many sign-changing solutions for the above problem by using a combination of invariant sets method and the Ljusternik-Schnirelman type minimax method. To the best of our knowledge, there are only few existence results for this problem. It is worth mentioning that the nonlinear term may not be 4-superlinear at infinity, in particular, it includes the power-type nonlinearity up2u|u|^{p-2}u with p(2,4]p\in(2,4].

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@article{arxiv.1907.01888,
  title  = {Infinitely many sign-changing solutions for Kirchhoff type problems in $\mathbb{R}^3$},
  author = {Jijiang Sun and Lin Li and Matija Cencelj and Boštjan Gabrovšek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.01888},
  year   = {2019}
}
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