American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Existence of quasiperiodic solutions of elliptic equations on the entire space with a quadratic nonlinearity

 1 School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States 2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada

* Corresponding author: P. Poláčik

Received  September 2017 Revised  April 2018 Published  April 2019

Fund Project: The first author was supported in part by the NSF Grant DMS-1565388. The second author was supported in part by CONICYT-Chile Becas Chile, Convocatoria 2010

We consider the equation
 $\Delta u+{{u}_{yy}}+f(x,u) = 0,\quad (x,y)\in {{\mathbb{R}}^{N}}\times \mathbb{R}\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \left( 1 \right)$
where
 $f$
is sufficiently regular, radially symmetric in
 $x$
, and
 $f(\cdot,0)\equiv 0$
. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions of (1) which are quasiperiodic in
 $y$
and decaying as
 $|x|\to\infty$
uniformly in
 $y$
. Such solutions are found using a center manifold reduction and results from the KAM theory. A required nondegeneracy condition is stated in terms of
 $f_u(x,0)$
and
 $f_{uu}(x,0)$
, and is independent of higher-order terms in the Taylor expansion of
 $f(x,\cdot)$
. In particular, our results apply to some quadratic nonlinearities.
Citation: Peter Poláčik, Darío A. Valdebenito. Existence of quasiperiodic solutions of elliptic equations on the entire space with a quadratic nonlinearity. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2020077
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