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Sign-changing prescribed mass solutions for $L^2$-supercritical NLS on compact metric graphs

Analysis of PDEs 2026-03-30 v3

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the existence of multiple sign-changing solutions of prescribed mass for a mass-supercritical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation set on a compact metric graph. In particular, we obtain, in the supercritical mass regime, the first multiplicity result for prescribed mass solutions on compact metric graphs. As a byproduct, we prove that any eigenvalue of the associated linear operator is a bifurcation point. Our approach relies on the introduction a new kind of link and on the use of gradient flow techniques on a constraint. It can be transposed to other problems posed on a bounded domain.

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@article{arxiv.2501.14642,
  title  = {Sign-changing prescribed mass solutions for $L^2$-supercritical NLS on compact metric graphs},
  author = {Louis Jeanjean and Linjie Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.14642},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

This version is the final one, corresponding to the paper now published in Journal of Functional Analysis