We consider a class of Schrödinger operators on ${\open R}^N$ with radial potentials. Viewing them as self-adjoint operators on the space of radially symmetric functions in $L^2({\open R}^N)$, we show that the following properties are generic with respect to the potential:

1. (P1) the eigenvalues below the essential spectrum are nonresonant (i.e., rationally independent) and so are the square roots of the moduli of these eigenvalues;

2. (P2) the eigenfunctions corresponding to the eigenvalues below the essential spectrum are algebraically independent on any nonempty open set.

We study the following coupled nonlinear Schr¨odinger system in ℝ3:

where μ1 > 0, μ2 > 0 and β ∈ ℝ is a coupling constant. Irrespective of whether the system is repulsive or attractive, we prove that it has nodal semi-classical segregated or synchronized bound states with clustered spikes for sufficiently small ε under some additional conditions on P(x), Q(x) and β. Moreover, the number of this type of solutions will go to infinity as ε → 0+.

In this paper, we prove the existence of nontrivial solutions to the following Schrödinger equation with critical Sobolev exponent:

$$\begin{eqnarray}\left\{\begin{array}{@{}l@{}}-{\rm\Delta}u+V(x)u=K(x)|u|^{2^{\ast }-2}u+f(x,u),\quad x\in \mathbb{R}^{N},\\ u\in H^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{N})\end{array}\right.\end{eqnarray}$$

$V(x_{0})<0$

$x_{0}\in \mathbb{R}^{N}$

$b>0$

${\mathcal{V}}_{b}:=\{x\in \mathbb{R}^{N}:V(x)<b\}$

$K$

$f$

$N\geq 3$

$2^{\ast }=2N/(N-2)$

In this paper, we prove the existence, uniqueness and multiplicity of positive solutions of a nonlinear perturbed fourth-order problem related to the $Q$ curvature.

We show that for any fixed base a, a positive proportion of primes become composite after any one of their digits in the base a expansion is altered; the case where a=2 has already been established by Cohen and Selfridge [‘Not every number is the sum or difference of two prime powers’, Math. Comput.29 (1975), 79–81] and Sun [‘On integers not of the form ±pa±qb’, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.128 (2000), 997–1002], using some covering congruence ideas of Erdős. Our method is slightly different, using a partially covering set of congruences followed by an application of the Selberg sieve upper bound. As a consequence, it is not always possible to test whether a number is prime from its base a expansion without reading all of its digits. We also present some slight generalisations of these results.

We obtain solvability conditions for some elliptic equations involving non-Fredholm operators with the methods of spectral theory and scattering theory for Schrödinger-type operators. One of the main results of the paper concerns solvability conditions for the equation –Δu + V(x)u–au = f where a ≥ 0. The conditions are formulated in terms of orthogonality of the function f to the solutions of the homogeneous adjoint equation.

In this paper, we obtain some results on the existence of solutions for the system

$$ (-\Delta+q_i)u_i=\mu_im_iu_i+f_i(x,u_1,\dots,u_n)\text{ in }\mathbb{R}^{N},\quad i=1,\dots,n, $$

where each of the $q_i$ are positive potentials satisfying $\lim_{|x|\rightarrow+\infty}q_i(x)=+\infty$, each of the $m_i$ are bounded positive weights and each of the $\mu_i$ are real parameters. Depending upon the hypotheses on $f_i$, we use either the method of sub- and supersolutions or a bifurcation method.