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Symmetry of Nodal Solutions for Singularly Perturbed Elliptic Problems on a Ball
In [40], it was shown that the following singularly perturbed Dirichlet problem
\ep^2 \Delta u - u+ |u|^{p-1} u=0, \ \mbox{in} \ \Om,\]
\[ u=0 \ \mbox{on} \ \partial \Om
has a nodal solution u_\ep which has the least energy among all nodal solutions. Moreover, it is shown that u_\ep has exactly one local maximum point P_1^\ep with a positive value
and one local minimum point P_2^\ep with a negative value and, as \ep \to 0,
\varphi (P_1^\ep, P_2^\ep) \to \max_{ (P_1, P_2) \in \Om \times \Om } \varphi (P_1, P_2),
where \varphi (P_1, P_2)= \min (\frac{|P_1-P_2}{2}, d(P_1, \partial \Om), d(P_2, \partial \Om)). The following question naturally arises: where is the {\bf nodal surface} \{ u_\ep (x)=0 \}? In this paper, we give an answer in the case of the unit ball \Om=B_1 (0).
In particular, we show that for \epsilon sufficiently small, P_1^\ep, P_2^\ep and the origin must lie on a line. Without loss of generality, we may assume that this line is the x_1-axis.
Then u_\ep must be even in x_j, j=2, ..., N, and odd in x_1.
As a consequence, we show that \{ u_\ep (x)=0 \} = \{ x \in B_1 (0) | x_1=0 \}. Our proof
is divided into two steps:
first, by using the method of moving planes, we show that P_1^\ep, P_2^\ep and the origin must lie on the x_1-axis and u_\ep must be even in x_j, j=2, ..., N. Then,
using the Liapunov-Schmidt reduction method, we prove
the uniqueness of u_\ep (which implies the odd symmetry of u_\ep in x_1). Similar results are also proved for the problem with Neumann boundary conditions
Nonzero solutions of perturbed Hammerstein integral equations with deviated arguments and applications
We provide a theory to establish the existence of nonzero solutions of
perturbed Hammerstein integral equations with deviated arguments, being our
main ingredient the theory of fixed point index. Our approach is fairly general
and covers a variety of cases. We apply our results to a periodic boundary
value problem with reflections and to a thermostat problem. In the case of
reflections we also discuss the optimality of some constants that occur in our
theory. Some examples are presented to illustrate the theory.Comment: 3 figures, 23 page
Nontrivial solutions of boundary value problems for second order functional differential equations
In this paper we present a theory for the existence of multiple nontrivial
solutions for a class of perturbed Hammerstein integral equations. Our
methodology, rather than to work directly in cones, is to utilize the theory of
fixed point index on affine cones. This approach is fairly general and covers a
class of nonlocal boundary value problems for functional differential
equations. Some examples are given in order to illustrate our theoretical
results.Comment: 19 pages, revised versio
Nonzero radial solutions for a class of elliptic systems with nonlocal BCs on annular domains
We provide new results on the existence, non-existence, localization and
multiplicity of nontrivial solutions for systems of Hammerstein integral
equations. Some of the criteria involve a comparison with the spectral radii of
some associated linear operators. We apply our results to prove the existence
of multiple nonzero radial solutions for some systems of elliptic boundary
value problems subject to nonlocal boundary conditions. Our approach is
topological and relies on the classical fixed point index. We present an
example to illustrate our theory.Comment: 25 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1404.139
Non-negative solutions of systems of ODEs with coupled boundary conditions
We provide a new existence theory of multiple positive solutions valid for a wide class of
systems of boundary value problems that possess a coupling in the boundary conditions.
Our conditions are fairly general and cover a large number of situations. The theory is illustrated
in details in an example. The approach relies on classical fixed point index
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