# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

February  2020, 19(2): 1037-1055. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020048

## Local uniqueness problem for a nonlinear elliptic equation

 1 School of Information and Mathematics, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434023, China 2 Department of Mathematics, Jianghan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430056, China

* Corresponding author

Received  March 2019 Revised  March 2019 Published  October 2019

Fund Project: Wan is supported by Scientific Research Fund of Hubei Provincial Education Department (B2013155). The corresponding author Xiang is financially supported by NSFC (No. 11701045) and the Yangtze Youth Fund (No. 2016cqn56).

In this paper, we consider the following nonlinear Schrödinger equation
 $\begin{eqnarray*} - \varepsilon^{2}\Delta u_{ \varepsilon}+u_{ \varepsilon} = K(x)u_{ \varepsilon}^{p-1} & & {\rm{in\;}}\mathbb{R}^{N}, \end{eqnarray*}$
where
 $N\ge3$
and
 $2 . Under mild assumptions on the function $ K $and using the local Pohozaev identity method developed by Deng, Lin and Yan [10], we show that multi-peak solutions to the above equation are unique for $ \varepsilon>0 $sufficiently small. Citation: Miao Chen, Youyan Wan, Chang-Lin Xiang. Local uniqueness problem for a nonlinear elliptic equation. Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis, 2020, 19 (2) : 1037-1055. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020048 ##### References:  [1] A. Ambrosetti, V. Felli and A. Malchiodi, Ground states of nonlinear Schrödinger equations with potentials vanishing at infinity, J. Eur. Math. Soc., 7 (2005), 117-144. doi: 10.4171/JEMS/24. [2] A. Ambrosetti, A. Malchiodi and D. Ruiz, Bound states of nonlinear Schrödinger equations with potentials vanishing at infinity, J. Anal. Math., 18 (2005), 317-348. doi: 10.1007/BF02790279. [3] A. Ambrosetti and Z. Q. Wang, Nonlinear Schrödinger equations with vanishing and decaying potentials, Diff. Int. 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Malchiodi, Ground states of nonlinear Schrödinger equations with potentials vanishing at infinity, J. Eur. Math. Soc., 7 (2005), 117-144. doi: 10.4171/JEMS/24. [2] A. Ambrosetti, A. Malchiodi and D. Ruiz, Bound states of nonlinear Schrödinger equations with potentials vanishing at infinity, J. Anal. Math., 18 (2005), 317-348. doi: 10.1007/BF02790279. [3] A. Ambrosetti and Z. Q. Wang, Nonlinear Schrödinger equations with vanishing and decaying potentials, Diff. Int. Equats., 18 (2005), 1321-1332. [4] A. Bahri and J.-M. Coron, On a nonlinear elliptic equation involving the critical Sobolev exponent: the effect of the topology of the domain, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 41 (1988), 253-294. doi: 10.1002/cpa.3160410302. [5] T. Bartsch and S. Peng, Semiclassical symmetric Schrödinger equations: existence of solutions concentrating simultaneously on several spheres, Z. Angew. Math. Phys., 58 (2007), 778-804. doi: 10.1007/s00033-006-5111-x. [6] D. Cao and H. P. 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Gui, Existence of multi-bump solutions for nonlinear Schrödinger equations via variational method, Commun. Part. Differ. Equ., 21 (1996), 787-820. doi: 10.1080/03605309608821208. [17] Y. Guo, S. Peng and S. Yan, Local uniqueness and periodicity induced by concentration, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., 114 (2017), 1005-1043. doi: 10.1112/plms.12029. [18] M. K. Kwong, Uniqueness of positive solutions of$\Delta u-u+u^{p} = 0$in$\mathbf{R}^{n}$, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 105 (1989), 243-266. doi: 10.1007/BF00251502. [19] G. Li, P. Luo, S. Peng, C. Wang and C.-L. Xiang, Uniqueness and nondegeneracy of positive solutions to Kirchhoff equations and its applications in singular perturbation problems, arXiv: 1703.05459. doi: 10.1017/prm.2018.108. [20] E. S. Noussair and S. Yan, On positive multipeak solutions of a nonlinear elliptic problem, J. London Math. Soc., 62 (2000), 213-227. doi: 10.1112/S002461070000898X. [21] Y. G. 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