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Consider the positive, radial solutions of the nonlinear biharmonic equation $\Delta^2 u = u^p$. There is a critical power $p_c$ such that solutions are linearly stable if and only if $p\geq p_c$. We obtain their asymptotic expansion at…
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We give a new bound on the exponent for the nonexistence of stable solutions to the biharmonic problem $$\Delta^2u=u^p,\quad u>0 in \mathbb{R}^n $$ where $p>1, n \geq 20$.
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We consider weak non-negative solutions to the critical $p$-Laplace equation in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $-\Delta_p u =u^{p^*-1}$ in the singular case $1<p<2$. We prove that if the nonlinearity is locally Lipschitz continuous, namely $p^*\geqslant2$…
In this paper we consider the following biharmonic equation with critical exponent $P_\epsilon$ : $\Delta^2 u= Ku^{(n+4)/(n-4)-\epsilon}, u>0$ in $\Omega$ and $u=\Delta u=0$ on $\partial\Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a domain in $R^n$, $n\geq…
By a combination of variational and topological techniques in the presence of invariant cones, we detect a new type of positive axially symmetric solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the elliptic equation $$ -\Delta u + u = a(x)|u|^{p-2}u…
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We investigate the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a three-edge star graph, where each edge contains a linear localized inhomogeneity in the form of a Dirac delta linear potential. Such systems are of significant interest in studying…
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We prove nonlinear stability of the fundamental self--similar solution of the wave equation with a focusing power nonlinearity $\psi_{tt}-\Delta \psi=\psi^p$ for $p=3,5,7,...$ in the radial case. The proof is based on a semigroup…
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We prove the nonexistence of smooth stable solution to the biharmonic problem $\Delta^2 u= u^p$, $u>0$ in $\R^N$ for $1 < p < \infty$ and $N < 2(1 + x_0)$, where $x_0$ is the largest root of the following equation: $$x^4 -…
We determine and study the ground states of a focusing Schr\"odinger equation in dimension one with a power nonlinearity $|\psi|^{2\mu} \psi$ and a strong inhomogeneity represented by a singular point perturbation, the so-called…
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