Document Type
Article - postprint
Department
Mathematics (HMC)
Publication Date
4-2017
Abstract
Building on the construction of least energy sign-changing solutions to variational semilinear elliptic boundary value problems introduced in [A. Castro, J. Cossio and J.M. Neuberger, Sign changing solutions for a superlinear Dirichlet problem, Rocky Mountain J. Math. 27 (1997), 1041--1053], we prove the existence of a solution with augmented Morse index at least three when a sublevel of the corresponding action functional has nontrivial topology. We provide examples where the set of least energy sign changing solutions is disconnected, hence has nontrivial topology.
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DOI
10.12775/TMNA.2016.075
Recommended Citation
Alfonso Castro. Ivan Ventura. "Existence of solutions to a semilinear elliptic boundary value problem with augmented Morse index bigger than two." Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal. 49 (1) 233 - 244, 2017.
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