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Power law convergence and concavity for the Logarithmic Schr\"odinger equation

Analysis of PDEs 2026-04-09 v2

Abstract

We study concavity properties of positive solutions to the Logarithmic Schr\"odinger equation Δu=ulogu2-\Delta u=u\, \log u^2 in a general convex domain with Dirichlet conditions. To this aim, we analyse the auxiliary Lane-Emden problems Δu=σ(uqu)-\Delta u = \sigma\, (u^q-u) and build, for any σ>0\sigma>0 and q>1q>1, solutions uqu_q such that uq(1q)/2u_q^{(1-q)/2} is convex. By choosing σq=2/(q1)\sigma_q=2/(q-1) and letting q1+q \to 1^+ we eventually construct a solution uu of the Logarithmic Schr\"odinger equation such that logu\log u is concave. This seems to be one of the few attempts at studying concavity properties for superlinear, sign changing sources. To get the result, we both make inspections on the constant rank theorem and develop Liouville theorems on convex epigraphs, which might be useful in other frameworks.

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@article{arxiv.2411.01614,
  title  = {Power law convergence and concavity for the Logarithmic Schr\"odinger equation},
  author = {Marco Gallo and Sunra Mosconi and Marco Squassina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.01614},
  year   = {2026}
}