This book deals with nonlinear boundary value problems for semilinear elliptic equations on unbounded domains with nonlinearities involving the subcritical Sobolev exponent. The variational problems investigated in the book originate in many branches of applied science. A typical example is the nonlinear Schrödinger equation which appears in mathematical modeling phenomena arising in nonlinear optics and plasma physics. Solutions to these problems are found as critical points of variational functionals. The main difficulty in examining the compactness of Palais-Smale sequences arises from the fact that the Sobolev compact embedding theorems are no longer true on unbounded domains. In this book we develop the concentration-compactness principle at infinity, which is used to obtain the relative compactness of minimizing sequences. This tool, combined with some basic methods from the Lusternik-Schnirelman theory of critical points, is to investigate the existence of positive, symmetric and nodal solutions. The book also emphasizes the effect of the graph topology of coefficients on the existence of multiple solutions.
| ISBN: | 9789810240769 |
| Publication date: | 20th October 1999 |
| Author: | Jan Chabrowski |
| Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing an imprint of WORLD SCIENTIFIC |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Genres: |
Differential calculus and equations |
This book deals with nonlinear boundary value problems for semilinear elliptic equations on unbounded domains with nonlinearities involving the subcritical Sobolev exponent. The variational problems investigated in the book originate in many branches of applied science. A typical example is the nonlinear Schrödinger equation which appears in mathematical modeling phenomena arising in nonlinear optics and plasma physics. Solutions to these problems are found as critical points of variational functionals. The main difficulty in examining the compactness of Palais-Smale sequences arises from the fact that the Sobolev compact embedding theorems are no longer true on unbounded domains. In this book we develop the concentration-compactness principle at infinity, which is used to obtain the relative compactness of minimizing sequences. This tool, combined with some basic methods from the Lusternik-Schnirelman theory of critical points, is to investigate the existence of positive, symmetric and nodal solutions. The book also emphasizes the effect of the graph topology of coefficients on the existence of multiple solutions.
Weak Convergence Methods For Semilinear Elliptic Equations features in the following genres: Differential calculus and equations
Weak Convergence Methods For Semilinear Elliptic Equations is available in Hardback
Weak Convergence Methods For Semilinear Elliptic Equations was written by Jan Chabrowski and published by World Scientific Publishing an imprint of WORLD SCIENTIFIC
Weak Convergence Methods For Semilinear Elliptic Equations has 248 pages