# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2013, 12(3): 1237-1241. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.1237

## On the number of maximum points of least energy solution to a two-dimensional Hénon equation with large exponent

 1 Department of Mathematics, Osaka City University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, 558-8585

Received  December 2011 Revised  May 2012 Published  September 2012

In this note, we prove that least energy solutions of the two-dimensional Hénon equation \begin{eqnarray*} -\Delta u = |x|^{2\alpha} u^p \quad x \in \Omega, \quad u 0 \quad x \in \Omega, \quad u = 0 \quad x \in \partial \Omega, \end{eqnarray*} where $\Omega$ is a smooth bounded domain in $R^2$ with $0 \in \Omega$, $\alpha \ge 0$ is a constant and $p >1$, have only one global maximum point when $\alpha > e-1$ and the nonlinear exponent $p$ is sufficiently large. This answers positively to a recent conjecture by C. Zhao (preprint, 2011).
Citation: Futoshi Takahashi. On the number of maximum points of least energy solution to a two-dimensional Hénon equation with large exponent. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2013, 12 (3) : 1237-1241. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.1237
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