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Solutions with multiple alternate sign peaks along a boundary geodesic to a semilinear Dirichlet problem

Analysis of PDEs 2012-10-31 v1

Abstract

We study the existence of sign-changing multiple interior spike solutions for the following Dirichlet problem {equation*}\e^2\Delta v-v+f(v)=0\hbox{in}\Omega,\quad v=0 \hbox{on}\partial \Omega,{equation*} where Ω\Omega is a smooth and bounded domain of RN\R^N, \e\e is a small positive parameter, ff is a superlinear, subcritical and odd nonlinearity. In particular we prove that if Ω\Omega has a plane of symmetry and its intersection with the plane is a two-dimensional strictly convex domain, then, provided that kk is even and sufficiently large, a kk-peak solution exists with alternate sign peaks aligned along a closed curve near a geodesic of Ω\partial \Omega.

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@article{arxiv.1210.8019,
  title  = {Solutions with multiple alternate sign peaks along a boundary geodesic to a semilinear Dirichlet problem},
  author = {Teresa D'Aprile and Angela Pistoia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.8019},
  year   = {2012}
}