# 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 & 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. Google Scholar [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. Google Scholar [3] A. Ambrosetti and Z. Q. Wang, Nonlinear Schrödinger equations with vanishing and decaying potentials, Diff. Int. 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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. Google Scholar [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. Google Scholar [6] D. Cao and H. P. Heinz, Uniqueness of positive multi-lump bound states of nonlinear Schrödinger equations, Math. Z., 243 (2003), 599-642. doi: 10.1007/s00209-002-0485-8. Google Scholar [7] 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 [8] D. Cao, E. S. Noussair and S. Yan, Solutions with multiple peaks for nonlinear elliptic equations, Proc. Royal Soc. 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