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Existence of a solution to a semilinear elliptic equation

  • Received: 21 August 2016 Accepted: 26 August 2016 Published: 30 August 2016
  • We consider the equation $-\Delta u =f(u)-\frac{1}{|\Omega|}\int_{\Omega} f(u)d\mathbf{x}$, where the domain $\Omega= \mathbb{T}^N$, the $N$-dimensional torus, with $N=2$ or $N=3$. And $f$ is a given smooth function of $u$ for $u(\mathbf{x}) \in G \subset \mathbb{R}$. We prove that there exists a solution $u$ to this equation which is unique if $|\frac{df}{du}(u_0)|$ is sufficiently small, where $u_0 \in G$ is a given constant. And we prove that the solution $u$ is not unique if $\frac{df}{du}(u_0) $ is a simple eigenvalue of $-\Delta$.

    Citation: Diane Denny. Existence of a solution to a semilinear elliptic equation[J]. AIMS Mathematics, 2016, 1(3): 208-211. doi: 10.3934/Math.2016.3.208

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  • We consider the equation $-\Delta u =f(u)-\frac{1}{|\Omega|}\int_{\Omega} f(u)d\mathbf{x}$, where the domain $\Omega= \mathbb{T}^N$, the $N$-dimensional torus, with $N=2$ or $N=3$. And $f$ is a given smooth function of $u$ for $u(\mathbf{x}) \in G \subset \mathbb{R}$. We prove that there exists a solution $u$ to this equation which is unique if $|\frac{df}{du}(u_0)|$ is sufficiently small, where $u_0 \in G$ is a given constant. And we prove that the solution $u$ is not unique if $\frac{df}{du}(u_0) $ is a simple eigenvalue of $-\Delta$.


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