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Uniqueness of Positive Solutions for Fractional Schr\"{o}dinger Equations with General Nonlinearities

Analysis of PDEs 2025-03-18 v2

Abstract

In 2013, R.L. Frank and E. Lenzmann [R.L. Frank, E. Lenzmann, Uniqueness of non-linear ground states for fractional Laplacians in R\mathbb{R}, Acta Math. 210 (2) (2013) 261-318] study the following problem: \begin{align*} (-\Delta)^su + u = u^{p-1} \quad \text{in } \mathbb{R}^N, \end{align*} where s(0,1)s \in (0,1), N=1N = 1, p(2,2s)p \in (2,2_s^*), and 2s2_s^* is the critical fractional Sobolev exponent. They proved that the ground state is unique (up to translations). Then in 2016, they, together with L. Silvestre [R.L. Frank, E. Lenzmann, L. Silvestre, Uniqueness of radial solutions for the fractional Laplacian, Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 69 (9) (2016) 1671-1726] showed similar uniqueness results for high dimensions (N2N \geqslant 2), in which they proposed a challenging open problem to extend their results about non-degeneracy and uniqueness of ground states to nonlinearities f(u)f(u) beyond the pure-power case. To the best of our knowledge, this question is still unresolved so far. In this paper, we aim to give a full affirmative answer to this open issue for a large class of convex nonlinearities. In fact, we prove the uniqueness of the positive solution.

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@article{arxiv.2401.02795,
  title  = {Uniqueness of Positive Solutions for Fractional Schr\"{o}dinger Equations with General Nonlinearities},
  author = {Xinyu Li and Linjie Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.02795},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

There is an error in the proof of Lemma 3.2