Nonnegative solutions with a nontrivial nodal set for elliptic equations on smooth symmetric domains
Analysis of PDEs
2012-05-08 v1
Abstract
We consider a semilinear elliptic equation on a smooth bounded domain in , assuming that both the domain and the equation are invariant under reflections about one of the coordinate axes, say the y-axis. It is known that nonnegative solutions of the Dirichlet problem for such equations are symmetric about the axis, and, if strictly positive, they are also decreasing in for . Our goal is to exhibit examples of equations which admit nonnegative, nonzero solutions for which the second property fails; necessarily, such solutions have a nontrivial nodal set in . Previously, such examples were known for nonsmooth domains only.
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@article{arxiv.1205.1213,
title = {Nonnegative solutions with a nontrivial nodal set for elliptic equations on smooth symmetric domains},
author = {Peter Polacik and Susanna Terracini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.1213},
year = {2012}
}
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15 pages, 4 figures