Nodal solution for a planar problem with fast increasing weights

Author(s):  
Giovany M. Figueiredo ◽  
Marcelo F. Furtado ◽  
Ricardo Ruviaro
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (03) ◽  
pp. 1650042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ederson Moreira dos Santos ◽  
Filomena Pacella

We consider non-autonomous semilinear elliptic equations of the type [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] is either a ball or an annulus centered at the origin, [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is [Formula: see text] on bounded sets of [Formula: see text]. We address the question of estimating the Morse index [Formula: see text] of a sign changing radial solution [Formula: see text]. We prove that [Formula: see text] for every [Formula: see text] and that [Formula: see text] if [Formula: see text] is even. If [Formula: see text] is superlinear the previous estimates become [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], respectively, where [Formula: see text] denotes the number of nodal sets of [Formula: see text], i.e. of connected components of [Formula: see text]. Consequently, every least energy nodal solution [Formula: see text] is not radially symmetric and [Formula: see text] as [Formula: see text] along the sequence of even exponents [Formula: see text].


Author(s):  
Denis Bonheure ◽  
Ederson Moreira dos Santos ◽  
Enea Parini ◽  
Hugo Tavares ◽  
Tobias Weth

Abstract We consider nonlinear 2nd-order elliptic problems of the type $$\begin{align*} & -\Delta u=f(u)\ \textrm{in}\ \Omega, \qquad u=0\ \textrm{on}\ \partial \Omega, \end{align*}$$where $\Omega $ is an open $C^{1,1}$–domain in ${{\mathbb{R}}}^N$, $N\geq 2$, under some general assumptions on the nonlinearity that include the case of a sublinear pure power $f(s)=|s|^{p-1}s$ with $0<p<1$ and of Allen–Cahn type $f(s)=\lambda (s-|s|^{p-1}s)$ with $p>1$ and $\lambda>\lambda _2(\Omega )$ (the second Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Laplacian). We prove the existence of a least energy nodal (i.e., sign changing) solution and of a nodal solution of mountain-pass type. We then give explicit examples of domains where the associated levels do not coincide. For the case where $\Omega $ is a ball or annulus and $f$ is of class $C^1$, we prove instead that the levels coincide and that least energy nodal solutions are nonradial but axially symmetric functions. Finally, we provide stronger results for the Allen–Cahn type nonlinearities in case $\Omega $ is either a ball or a square. In particular, we give a complete description of the solution set for $\lambda \sim \lambda _2(\Omega )$, computing the Morse index of the solutions.


1992 ◽  
Vol 152 ◽  
pp. 153-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.C. Klafke ◽  
S. Ferraz-Mello ◽  
T. Michtchenko

Motions near the 3:1, 4:1 and 5:2 resonances with Jupiter are studied by means of numerical integrations of a semi-analytically averaged Sun-Jupiter-asteroid planar problem. In order to have a model including the very-high-eccentricity regions of the phase space, we adopted a set of local expansions of the disturbing potential, adequate to perform the numerical exploration of regions in the phase space with eccentricities higher than 0.9 (Ferraz-Mello and Klafke, 1991). Individual solutions and qualitative results thus obtained are completely reproduced by numerical integration of the complete equations by filtering off the short-period components of these solutions.


We extend the CLM theorem (Cherkaev, Lurie & Milton, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A (1992) 438, 519-529) to planar linear elastic materials of Cosserat (micropolar) type, that is those having microrotation as an additional degree of freedom besides the two in-plane displacements. More specifically, it is shown that in the first planar problem of such media with smoothly varying material properties, a shift in three, out of four, compliances is possible without changing the stress field; the fourth coefficient represents a connection between the couple stress tensor and the torsion tensor, while the other three represent compliances relating traction-stress vector with the strains. Same shift holds for a locally anisotropic material, whereby the shift tensor is seen to be a multiple of a rotation by a right angle; a null-Lagrangian formulation is set up on this basis. These results are obtained for materials with smooth properties, with natural implications being drawn for their macroscopically effective moduli. Also, it is shown that no shift is possible in case of a pseudo-continuum – a material admitting couple stresses but restricted to have the same connection between rotation and displacement gradient as in classical elasticity. Finally, we establish that there is no shift in the second planar problem which represents a micropolar generalization of the classical out-of-plane elasticity.


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