Local mountain passes for semilinear elliptic problems in unbounded domains
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Local mountain passes for semilinear elliptic problems in unbounded domains
zbMATH Open document ID: 0844.35032
author: P. Felmer
author: Manuel del Pino
published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations
publication date: 1996-05-19T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors consider the semilinear elliptic problem \[ \varepsilon^2 \Delta u- V(x) u+ f(u)= 0\quad\text{ in } \;\Omega,\quad u= 0\quad\text{on} \quad \partial\Omega,\quad u> 0,\tag{\(*\)} \] where \(\Omega\subset \mathbb R^n\) is a possibly unbounded domain. The function \(f\) is assumed to be of subcritical growth and \(f(\xi)/\xi\) is nondecreasing. The potential \(V\) is strictly positive and locally Hölder continuous. The main result of this paper states that there exists a positive solution of \((*)\) for sufficiently small \(\varepsilon> 0\), if \[ \inf_{G} V< \min_{\partial G} V \] holds for some domain \(G\) compactly contained in \(\Omega\). An asymptotic estimate for the solution is given, too. The proof of this result relies on a local mountain pass lemma. Since the energy functional associated to \((*)\) does not satisfy the usual Palais-Smale condition, the authors introduce a truncated functional, the critical points of which are also solutions of \((*)\) for small~\(\varepsilon\).
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35J65
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35B05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35B40
zbMATH DE Number: 852856
zbMATH Keywords: asymptotic estimate
zbMATH Keywords: local mountain pass lemma
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: s005260050031
OpenAlex ID: W4233977627
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DOI: 10.1007/S005260050031
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 852856