Using Struwe's "monotonicity trick" and the recent blow-up analysis of Ohtsuka and Suzuki, we prove the existence of mountain pass solutions to a mean field equation arising in two-dimensional turbulence.
We obtain the existence of mountain pass solutions for quasi-linear equations without the typical assumptions which guarantee the boundedness of an arbitrary Palais-Smale sequence. This is done through a recent version of the monotonicity trick proved by the second author. The main results are new also for the p-Laplacian operator.
This paper addresses the Mountain Pass Theorem for locally Lipschitz functions on finite-dimensional vector spaces in terms of tangencies. Namely, let $f \colon \mathbb R^n \to \mathbb R$ be a locally Lipschitz function with a mountain pass geometry. Let $$c := \inf_{γ\in \mathcal A}\max_{t\in[0,1]}f(γ(t)),$$ where $\mathcal{A}$ is the set of all continuous paths joining $x^*$ to $y^*.$ We show that either $c$ is a critical value of $f$ or $c$ is a tangency value at infinity of $f.$ This reduces to the Mountain Pass Theorem of Ambrosetti and Rabinowitz in the case where the function $f$ is def…
In this paper, we prove the existence of solutions to quasilinear elliptic equations on a bounded domain of $\R^N$ under subcritical Musielak-Orlicz-Sobolev growth. Our proofs rely essentially on Mountain Pass Theorem with corresponding variational techniques. Furthermore, we establish the sharpness of our central assumptions. As far as we know, our approach is new, even for the Orlicz case.
We study the existence of radially symmetric solutions of the following nonlinear scalar field equations in ${\mathbb R}^N$ ($N\geq 2$): $$ (*)_m \left\{ \eqalign{ -&Δu = g(u) -μu \quad \hbox{in}\ {\mathbb R}^N, \cr &\| u\|_{L^2({\mathbb R}^N)} = m, \cr &u \in H^1({\mathbb R}^N), \cr} \right. $$ where $g(ξ)\in C({\mathbb R},{\mathbb R})$, $m>0$ is a given constant and $μ\in {\mathbb R}$ is a Lagrange multiplier. We introduce a new approach using a Lagrange formulation of the problem $(*)_m$. We develop a new deformation argument under a new version of the Palais-Smale condition. For a general …
We investigate the existence of least energy solutions and infinitely many solutions for the following nonlinear fractional equation (-Δ)^{s} u = g(u) \mbox{ in } \mathbb{R}^{N}, where $s\in (0,1)$, $N\geq 2$, $(-Δ)^{s}$ is the fractional Laplacian and $g: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is an odd $\mathcal{C}^{1, α}$ function satisfying Berestycki-Lions type assumptions. The proof is based on the symmetric mountain pass approach developed by Hirata, Ikoma and Tanaka in \cite{HIT}. Moreover, by combining the mountain pass approach and an approximation argument, we also prove the existence o…
In the paper we consider a boundary value problem involving a differential equation with the fractional Laplacian $(-Δ)^{α/2}$ for $α\in\left( 1,2\right) $ and some superlinear and subcritical nonlinearity $G_{z}$ provided with a nonhomogeneous Dirichlet exterior boundary condition. Some sufficient conditions under which the set of weak solutions to the boundary value problem is nonempty and depends continuously in the Painleve-Kuratowski sense on distributed parameters and exterior boundary data are stated. The proofs of the existence results rely on the Mountain Pass Theorem. The application…
In this paper we study the existence of solution for a class of variational inequality in whole $\mathbb{R}^N$ where the nonlinearity has a critical growth for $N \geq 2$. By combining a penalization scheme found in del Pino and Felmer [18] with a penalization method due to Bensoussan and Lions [9], we improve a recent result by Alves, Barros and Torres [1].
We study a generalized Frenkel-Kontorova model and obtain periodic and heteroclinic mountain pass solutions. Heteroclinic mountain pass solution in the second laminations is new to the generalized Frenkel-Kontorova model. Our proof follows that of Bolotin and Rabinowitz for an Allen-Cahn equation, which is different with heat flow method for finding critical point of Frenkel-Kontorova model in the literature. The proofs depend on suitable choices of functionals and working spaces. We also study the multiplicity of these mountain pass solutions.
In this paper, we obtain a new quantitative deformation Lemma so that we can obtain more critical points, especially for supinf critical value $c_1$, $x=φ^{-1}(c_1)$ is a new critical point. For $infmax$ critical value $c_2$, we can obtain two new critical points $x = 0$ (valley point) and $x = e$(peak point) ,comparing with Willem's variant of the mountain pass theorem of Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz,in which $φ(e)\leqφ(0)<c_2$, but in our new mountain pass theorem, $ φ(e)=c_2$.
Using the Mountain Pass Theorem, we establish the existence of periodic solution for Euler-Lagrange equation. Lagrangian consists of kinetic part (an anisotropic G-function), potential part $K-W$ and a forcing term. We consider two situations: $G$ satisfying $Δ_2\cap\nabla_2$ in infinity and globally. We give conditions on the growth of the potential near zero for both situations.
We formulate some global invertibility and implicit function theorems. We extend the result of Idczak, Skowron and Walczak on the invertibility of the operators to the case of the operators with critical points. The proof relies on the Mountain Pass Theorem combined with the Palais-Smale condition guaranteeing the claim by the invertibility of the first or the third derivative. I. e. how to solve $x^3=y$?
Solutions of the stationary semilinear Cahn--Hilliard equation -Δ^2 u - u -Δ(|u|^{p-1}u)=0 in R^N, with p>1, which are exponentially decaying at infinity, are studied. Using the Mounting Pass Lemma allows us the determination of two different solutions. On the other hand, the application of Lusternik--Schnirel'man (L--S) Category Theory shows the existence of, at least, a countable family of solutions. However, through numerical methods it is shown that the whole set of solutions, even in 1D, is much wider. This suggests that, actually, there exists, at least, a countable set of countable fami…
The aim of this paper is to study a concentration-compactness principle for inhomogeneous fractional Sobolev space $H^s (\mathbb{R}^N)$ for $0<s\leq N/2.$ As an application we establish Palais-Smale compactness for the Lagrangian associated to the fractional Schrödinger equation $(-Δ)^{s} u + a(x)u= f(x,u)$ for $0<s<1.$ Moreover, we prove the existence of nontrivial nonnegative solutions to this class of elliptic equations for a wide class of possible singular potentials $a(x)$; not necessarily bounded away from zero. We consider possible oscillatory nonlinearities and that may not satisfy the…
We develop a min-max theory for asymptotically conical self-expanders of mean curvature flow. In particular, we show that given two distinct strictly stable self-expanders that are asymptotic to the same cone and bound a domain, there exists a new asymptotically conical self-expander trapped between the two.
In this work, we prove the existence of a third embedded minimal hypersurface spanning a closed submanifold $γ$ contained in the boundary of a compact Riemannian manifold with convex boundary, when it is known a priori the existence of two strictly stable minimal hypersurfaces that bound $γ$. In order to do so, we develop min-max methods similar to those of De Lellis and Ramic, references in the paper, adapted to the discrete setting of Almgren and Pitts.
For a degenerate autonomous Kirchhoff equation which is set on $\mathbb{R}^N$ and involves the Berestycki-Lions type nonlinearity, we cope with the cases $N=2,3$ and $N\geq5$ by using mountain pass and symmetric mountain pass approaches and by using Clark theorem respectively.
We show that the empirical process associated with a system of weakly interacting diffusion processes exhibits a form of noise-induced metastability. The result is based on an analysis of the associated McKean--Vlasov free energy, which, for suitable attractive interaction potentials, has at least two distinct global minimisers at the critical parameter value $β=β_c$. On the torus, one of these states is the spatially homogeneous constant state, and the other is a clustered state. We show that a third critical point exists at this value. As a result, we obtain that the probability of transitio…
For a sinh-Poisson type problem with asymmetric exponents of interest in hydrodynamic turbulence, we establish the optimal lower bounds for the blow-up masses. We apply this result to construct solutions of mountain pass type on two-dimensional tori.
Bifurcation phenomena in one-phase quasilinear equations with nonstandard growth
Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP(坎皮纳斯州立大学);Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica - IMECC(数学、统计与科学计算研究所);Departamento de Matemática(数学系);Universidade Federal do Ceará(塞阿拉联邦大学)
\ In this paper, the following biharmonic elliptic problem \begin{eqnarray*} \begin{cases} Δ^2u-λ\frac{|u|^{q-2}u}{|x|^s}=|u|^{2^{**}-2}u+ f(x,u), &x\inΩ,\\ u=\dfrac{\partial u}{\partial n}=0, &x\in\partialΩ\end{cases} \end{eqnarray*} is considered. The main feature of the equation is that it involves a Hardy term and a nonlinearity with critical Sobolev exponent. By combining a careful analysis of the fibering maps of the energy functional associated with the problem with the Mountain Pass Lemma, it is shown, for some positive parameter $λ$ depending on $s$ and $q$, that the problem admits at…
For non-homotopic maps $u,v\in C^{\infty}(M,N)$ between closed Riemannian manifolds, we consider the smallest energy level $γ_p(u,v)$ for which there exist paths $u_t\in W^{1,p}(M,N)$ connecting $u_0=u$ to $u_1=v$ with $\|du_t\|_{L^p}^p\leq γ_p(u,v)$. When $u$ and $v$ are $(k-2)$-homotopic, work of Hang and Lin shows that $γ_p(u,v)<\infty$ for $p\in [1,k)$, and using their construction, one can obtain an estimate of the form $γ_p(u,v)\leq \frac{C(u,v)}{k-p}$. When $M$ and $N$ are oriented, and $u$ and $v$ induce different maps on real cohomology in degree $k-1$, we show that the growth $γ_p(u,…
The present work is concerned with the following version of Choquard Logarithmic equations $ -Δ_p u -Δ_N u + a|u|^{p-2}u + b|u|^{N-2}u + λ(\ln|\cdot|\ast G(u))g(u) = f(u) \textrm{ in } \mathbb{R}^N $ , where $ a, b, λ>0 $, $ \max\{\frac{N}{2}, 2 \} < p< N $, $f, g: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} $ are continuous functions that behave like $ \exp(α|u|^{\frac{N}{N-1}}) $ at infinity, for $ α>0 $, and that has polynomial growth, respectively, and $ G(s)=\int\limits_{0}^{s}g(τ)dτ$. We prove the existence of a nontrivial solution at the mountain pass level and a nontrivial ground state solution.…
We prove the existence of non-trivial solutions for a fractional Schr$\ddot{o}$dinger-Poisson equation in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$. The proof is based on the perturbation method and the mountain pass theorem.
By using variational methods, we study the existence of mountain pass solution to the following doubly critical Schrödinger system: $$ \begin{cases} -Δu-μ_1\frac{u}{|x|^2}-|u|^{2^{*}-2}u &=h(x)α|u|^{α-2}|v|^βu\quad \rm{in}\; \R^N, -Δv-μ_2\frac{v}{|x|^2}-|v|^{2^{*}-2}v &= h(x)β|u|^α|v|^{β-2}v\quad \rm{in}\; \R^N, \end{cases} $$ where $α\geq 2, β\geq 2, α+β\leq 2^*$;\; $ μ_1, μ_2\in [0, \frac{(N-2)^2}{4})$. The weight function $h(x)$ is allowed to be sign-changing so that the nonlinearities include a large class of indefinite weights. We show that the $PS$ condition is satisfied at higher energy…
In this paper, we study Mountain Pass Characterization of the second eigenvalue of the operator $-\De_p u -\De_{J,p}u$ and study shape optimization problems related to these eigenvalues.
We prove the existence of a mountain-pass solution and the a priori bound property for the electrostatic Klein-Gordon-Maxwell equations in high dimension.
In this paper, we prove the existence of infinitely many solutions for a class of quasilinear elliptic $m(x)$-polyharmonic Kirchhoff equations where the nonlinear function has a quasicritical growth at infinity and without assuming the Ambrosetti and Rabinowitz type condition. The new aspect consists in employing the notion of a Schauder basis to verify the geometry of the symmetric mountain pass theorem. Furthermore, for the case $m(x)\equiv Const$, we introduce a positive quantity $λ_M$ similar to the first eigenvalue of the $m$-polyharmonic operator to find a mountain pass solution, and als…
We study the existence of positive solutions with prescribed $L^2$-norm for the Schrödinger equation \[ -Δu-V(x)u+λu=|u|^{p-2}u\qquadλ\in \mathbb{R},\quad u\in H^1(\mathbb{R}^N), \] where $V\ge 0$, $N\ge 1$ and $p\in\left(2+\frac 4 N,2^*\right)$, $2^*:=\frac{2N}{N-2}$ if $N\ge 3$ and $2^*:=+\infty$ if $N=1,2$. We treat two cases. Firstly, under an explicit smallness assumption on $V$ and no condition on the mass, we prove the existence of a mountain pass solution at positive energy level, and we exclude the existence of solutions with negative energy. Secondly, requiring that the mass is small…
The paper deals with existence and multiplicity of solutions of the fractional Schrödinger--Kirchhoff equation involving an external magnetic potential. As a consequence, the results can be applied to the special case \begin{equation*} (a+b[u]_{s,A}^{2θ-2})(-Δ)_A^su+V(x)u=f(x,|u|)u\,\, \quad \text{in $\mathbb{R}^N$}, \end{equation*} where $s\in (0,1)$, $N>2s$, $a\in \mathbb{R}^+_0$, $b\in \mathbb{R}^+_0$, $θ\in[1,N/(N-2s))$, $A:\mathbb{R}^N\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^N$ is a magnetic potential, $V:\mathbb{R}^N\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^+$ is an electric potential, $(-Δ)_A^s$ is the fractional magnetic o…
In this paper, we study the existence and multiplicity of weak solutions for a general class of elliptic equations (\mathscr{P}_λ) in a smooth bounded domain, driven by a nonlocal integrodifferential operator \mathscr{L}_{\mathcal{A}K} with Dirichlet boundary conditions involving variable exponents without Ambrosetti and Rabinowitz type growth conditions. Using different versions of the Mountain Pass Theorem, as well as, the Fountain Theorem and Dual Fountain Theorem with Cerami condition, we obtain the existence of weak solutions for the problem (\mathscr{P}_λ) and we show that the problem tr…
In this paper we prove the existence of two solutions having a prescribed $L^2$-norm for a quasi-linear Schrödinger equation. One of these solutions is a mountain pass solution relative to a constraint and the other one a minimum either local or global. To overcome the lack of differentiability of the associated functional, we rely on a perturbation method developed in [27].