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March  2021, 41(3): 1023-1050. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020308

Properties of the minimizers for a constrained minimization problem arising in Kirchhoff equation

Helin Guo and  Huan-Song Zhou ,

Center for Mathematical Sciences and Department of Mathematics, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China

* Corresponding author: Huan-Song Zhou

Received  January 2020 Revised  June 2020 Published  August 2020

Fund Project: This work was supported by NFSC (Grant Nos. 11871387, 11931012) and partially by the fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WUT: 2019IVA106, 2019IB009)

Let
$ a>0,b>0 $
 and
$ V(x)\geq0 $
 be a coercive function in
$ \mathbb R^2 $
. We study the following constrained minimization problem on a suitable weighted Sobolev space
$ \mathcal{H} $
:
$ \begin{equation*} e_{a}(b): = \inf\left\{E_{a}^{b}(u):u\in\mathcal{H}\ \mbox{and}\ \int_{\mathbb R^{2}}|u|^{2}dx = 1\right\}, \end{equation*} $
where
$ E_{a}^{b}(u) $
 is a Kirchhoff type energy functional defined on
$ \mathcal{H} $
 by
$ \begin{equation*} E_{a}^{b}(u) = \frac{1}{2}\int_{\mathbb R^{2}}[|\nabla u|^{2}+V(x)u^{2}]dx+\frac{b}{4}\left(\int_{\mathbb R^{2}}|\nabla u|^{2}dx\right)^{2}-\frac{a}{4}\int_{\mathbb R^{2}}|u|^{4}dx. \end{equation*} $
It is known that, for some
$ a^{\ast}>0 $
,
$ e_{a}(b) $
 has no minimizer if
$ b = 0 $
 and
$ a\geq a^{\ast} $
, but
$ e_{a}(b) $
 has always a minimizer for any
$ a\geq0 $
 if
$ b>0 $
. The aim of this paper is to investigate the limit behaviors of the minimizers of
$ e_{a}(b) $
 as
$ b\rightarrow0^{+} $
. Moreover, the uniqueness of the minimizers of
$ e_{a}(b) $
 is also discussed for
$ b $
 close to 0.
Keywords: Kirchhoff type equation, constrained variational problem, energy estimates, mass concentration, uniqueness.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary:35J20, 35J60;Secondary:35A02.
Citation: Helin Guo, Huan-Song Zhou. Properties of the minimizers for a constrained minimization problem arising in Kirchhoff equation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2021, 41 (3) : 1023-1050. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020308
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References:
[1]

A. Arosio and S. Panizzi, On the well-posedness of the Kirchhoff string, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 348 (1996), 305-330.  doi: 10.1090/S0002-9947-96-01532-2.  Google Scholar

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W. Bao and Y. Cai, Mathematical theory and numerical methods for Bose-Einstein condensation, Kinet. Relat. Models, 6 (2013), 1-135.  doi: 10.3934/krm.2013.6.1.  Google Scholar

[3]

T. Bartsch and Z. Q. Wang, Existence and multiplicity results for some superlinear elliptic problems on $R^N$: Existence and multiplicity results, Comm. Partial Differential Equations, 20 (1995), 1725-1741.  doi: 10.1080/03605309508821149.  Google Scholar

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D. Cao, S. Li and P. Luo, Uniqueness of positive bound states with multi-bump for nonlinear Schrödinger equations, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 54 (2015), 4037-4063.  doi: 10.1007/s00526-015-0930-2.  Google Scholar

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F. Dalfovo, S. Giorgini, L. P. Pitaevskii and S. Stringari, Theory of Bose-Einstein condensation in trapped gases, Rev. Modern Phys., 71 (1999), 463-512.  doi: 10.1103/RevModPhys.71.463.  Google Scholar

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P. D'Ancona and S. Spagnolo, Nonlinear perturbations of the Kirchhoff equation, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 47 (1994), 1005-1029.  doi: 10.1002/cpa.3160470705.  Google Scholar

[7]

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D. Gilbarg and N. Trudinger, Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order, "Nauka", Moscow, 1989.  Google Scholar

[9]

Y. Guo and R. Seiringer, On the mass concentration for Bose-Einstein conden-sates with attractive interactions, Lett. Math. Phys., 104 (2014), 141-156.  doi: 10.1007/s11005-013-0667-9.  Google Scholar

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Y. Guo, C. Lin and J. Wei, Local uniqueness and refined spike profiles of ground states for two-dimensional attractive Bose-Einstein condensates, SIMA J. Math. Anal., 49 (2017), 3671-3715.  doi: 10.1137/16M1100290.  Google Scholar

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Y. Guo, X. Zeng and H.-S. Zhou, Concentration behavior of standing waves for almost mass critical nonlinear Schrödinger equations, J. Differential Equations, 256 (2014), 2079-2100.  doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2013.12.012.  Google Scholar

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Y. Guo, X. Zeng and H.-S. Zhou, Energy estimates and symmetry breaking in attractive Bose-Einstein condensates with ring-shaped potentials, Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire, 33 (2016), 809-828.  doi: 10.1016/j.anihpc.2015.01.005.  Google Scholar

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H. Guo, Y. Zhang and H.-S. Zhou, Blow-up solutions for a Kirchhoff type elliptic equations with trapping potential, Commun. Pure Appl. Anal., 17 (2018), 1875-1897.  doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018089.  Google Scholar

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H. Guo and H.-S. Zhou, A constrained variational problem arising in attractive Bose-Einstein condensate with ellipse-shaped potential, Appl. Math. Lett., 87 (2019), 35-41.  doi: 10.1016/j.aml.2018.07.023.  Google Scholar

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Q. Han and F. Lin, Elliptic Partial Differential Equations, $2^nd$ edition, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, 2011.  Google Scholar

[16]

Y. He and G. Li, Standing waves for a class of Kirchhoff type problems in $\Bbb{R}^3$ involving critical Sobolev exponents, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 54 (2015), 3067-3106.  doi: 10.1007/s00526-015-0894-2.  Google Scholar

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X. He and W. Zou, Existence and concentration behavior of positive solutions for a Kirchhoff equation in $\Bbb R^3$, J. Differential Equations, 252 (2012), 1813-1834.  doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2011.08.035.  Google Scholar

[18]

G. Kirchhoff, Mechanik, Teubner, Leipzig, 1883. Google Scholar

[19]

M. K. Kwong, Uniqueness of positive solutions of $\Delta u-u+u^{p} = 0$ in $\mathbb R^{N}$, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 105 (1989), 243-266.  doi: 10.1007/BF00251502.  Google Scholar

[20]

G. Li and H. Ye, Existence of positive ground state solutions for the nonlinear Kirchhoff type equations in $\Bbb R^3$, J. Differential Equations, 257 (2014), 566-600.  doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2014.04.011.  Google Scholar

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P. Luo, S. Peng and C. Wang, Uniqueness of positive solutions with concentration for the Schrödinger-Newton problem, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 59 (2020), Paper No. 60, 41 pp. doi: 10.1007/s00526-020-1726-6.  Google Scholar

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K. Mcleod and J. Serrin, Uniqueness of solutions of semilinear Poisson equations, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 78 (1981), 6592-6595.  doi: 10.1073/pnas.78.11.6592.  Google Scholar

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W.-M. Ni and I. Takagi, On the shape of least-energy solutions to a semilinear Neumann problem, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 44 (1991), 819-851.  doi: 10.1002/cpa.3160440705.  Google Scholar

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[25]

M. I. Weinstein, Nonlinear Schrödinger equations and sharp interpolation estimates, Comm. Math. Phys., 87 (1982/83), 567-576.   Google Scholar

[26]

M. Willem, Minimax Theorems, Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and their Applications, 24. Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA, 1996. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4612-4146-1.  Google Scholar

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X. Zeng, Asymptotic properties of standing waves for mass subcritical nonlinear Schrödinger equations, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 37 (2017), 1749-1762.  doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017073.  Google Scholar

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X. Zeng and Y. Zhang, Existence and uniqueness of normalized solutions for the Kirchhoff equation, Appl. Math. Lett., 74 (2017), 52-59.  doi: 10.1016/j.aml.2017.05.012.  Google Scholar

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J. Zhang, Stability of attractive Bose-Einstein condensates, J. Stat. Phys., 101 (2000), 731-746.  doi: 10.1023/A:1026437923987.  Google Scholar

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