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Critical Points of a Singular Perturbation Problem via Reduced Energy and Local Linking

✍ Scribed by Nicholas Alikakos; Michał Kowalczyk


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
208 KB
Volume
159
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-0396

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✦ Synopsis


In this paper we study the existence of critical points of the functional

where 0 # R d , d 2 is a bounded domain with C 3 boundary, u # H 1 (0), and = is a small parameter. On the nonlinearity F we assume:

). Additionally we require that there exists q>1 such that for u>0 the function F$(u)Âu q is nondecreasing and that there exists % # (0, 1Â2) such that %F $(u) u&F(u)>0, u 0. A typical example is F(u)=u 3 Â3, u>0. We point out here that our results apply to a larger class of nonlinearities (see Sect. 3.1 for more details). In the sequel we shall denote F $ by f.