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Solutions with multiple peaks for nonlinear elliptic equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Daomin Cao
Affiliation:
Young Scientist Laboratory of Mathematical Physics, Wuhan Institute of Mathematical Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 71007, Wuhan 430071, China
Ezzat S. Noussair
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052 NSW, Australia
Shusen Yan
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China

Abstract

Solutions with peaks near the critical points of Q(x) are constructed for the problem

We establish the existence of 2k −1 positive solutions when Q(x) has k non-degenerate critical points in ℝN

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1999

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