scholarly journals Linear instability and nondegeneracy of ground state for combined power-type nonlinear scalar field equations with the Sobolev critical exponent and large frequency parameter

2019 ◽  
Vol 150 (5) ◽  
pp. 2417-2441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takafumi Akahori ◽  
Slim Ibrahim ◽  
Hiroaki Kikuchi

AbstractWe consider combined power-type nonlinear scalar field equations with the Sobolev critical exponent. In [3], it was shown that if the frequency parameter is sufficiently small, then the positive ground state is nondegenerate and linearly unstable, together with an application to a study of global dynamics for nonlinear Schrödinger equations. In this paper, we prove the nondegeneracy and linear instability of the ground state frequency for sufficiently large frequency parameters. Moreover, we show that the derivative of the mass of ground state with respect to the frequency is negative.

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (05) ◽  
pp. 1250033 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIANJUN ZHANG ◽  
WENMING ZOU

In 1983, Berestycki and Lions [Nonlinear scalar field equations I. Existence of a ground state, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal.82 (1983) 313–346] studied the following elliptic problem: [Formula: see text] where N ≥ 3, g is subcritical at infinity. They proved the existence of a ground state under some appropriate growth restrictions on g. In the present paper, we improve this result by showing that under the critical growth assumption on g the problem admits a ground state. In addition we study a mountain pass characterization of the least energy solutions of the problem. Without the assumption of the monotonicity of the function [Formula: see text], we show that the mountain pass value gives the least energy level.


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