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We investigate the existence of ground states with fixed mass for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a pure power nonlinearity on periodic metric graphs. Within a variational framework, both the $L^2$-subcritical and critical regimes…
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We study the existence of solutions of the following nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation \begin{equation*} -\Delta u + \Big(V(x)-\frac{\mu}{|x|^2}\Big) u = f(x,u) \hbox{ for } x\in\mathbb{R}^N\setminus\{0\}, \end{equation*} where…
We look for solutions to the Schr\"odinger equation \[ -\Delta u + \lambda u = g(u) \quad \text{in } \mathbb{R}^N \] coupled with the mass constraint $\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}|u|^2\,dx = \rho^2$, with $N\ge2$. The behaviour of $g$ at the origin…
Shortened abstract: Given a constrained minimization problem, under what conditions does there exist a related, unconstrained problem having the same minimum points? This basic question in global optimization motivates this paper, which…
We consider the Schroedinger equation with a subcritical focusing power nonlinearity on a noncompact metric graph, and prove that for every finite edge there exists a threshold value of the mass, beyond which there exists a positive bound…
We prove the existence of non-trivial global minimizers of a class of free energies related to aggregation equations with degenerate diffusion on $\Real^d$. Such equations arise in mathematical biology as models for organism group dynamics…
We provide a non-uniqueness result for normalized ground states of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with pure power nonlinearity on polygons with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions, defined as global minimizers of the associated…
In this paper, we investigate the minimization problem : $$ \inf_{ \displaystyle{\begin{array}{lll} u \in H_0^1(\Omega), v \in H_0^1(\Omega),\\ \quad \| u \|_{L^{q}} =1, \quad \| v \|_{L^{q}} = 1 \end{array}}} \left[ \frac{1}{2}…
We study in detail the existence, nonexistence and behavior of global minimizers, ground states and corresponding energy levels of the $(p,q)$-Laplace equation $-\Delta_p u -\Delta_q u = \alpha |u|^{p-2}u + \beta |u|^{q-2}u$ in a bounded…
In this paper we show that minima and stable solutions of a general energy functional of the form $$ \int_{\Omega} F(\nabla u,\nabla v,u,v,x)dx $$ enjoy some monotonicity properties, under an assumption on the growth at infinity of the…
We investigate minimum weak $\alpha$-Riesz energy problems with external fields in both the unconstrained and constrained settings for generalized condensers $(A_1,A_2)$ such that the closures of $A_1$ and $A_2$ in $\mathbb R^n$ are allowed…
This paper is concerned with the variational problem for the elastic energy defined on symmetric graphs under the unilateral constraint. Assuming that the obstacle function satisfies the symmetric cone condition, we prove (i) uniqueness of…
Defining a condenser in a locally compact space as a locally finite, countable collection of Borel sets $A_i$, $i\in I$, with the sign $s_i=\pm1$ prescribed such that $A_i\cap A_j=\varnothing$ whenever $s_is_j=-1$, we consider a minimum…
Let $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ be a bounded open $C^{1,1}$ set. In this paper we prove the existence of a unique second order absolute minimiser $u_\infty$ of the functional \[ \mathrm{E}_\infty (u,\mathcal{O})\, :=\, \|…
In this paper, we give a complete study on the existence and non-existence of normalized solutions for Schr\"{o}dinger system with quadratic and cubic interactions. In the one dimension case, the energy functional is bounded from below on…