American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

November  2014, 13(6): 2395-2406. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2014.13.2395

Radial symmetry of ground states for a regional fractional Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

 1 Departamento de Ingeneria Matematica F.C.F.M., Universidad de Chile, Casilla 170 Correro 3, Santiago 2 Departamento de Ingeniería Matemática and Centro de Modelamiento Matemático UMR2071 CNRS-UChile, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 170 Correo 3, Santiago, Chile

Received  November 2013 Revised  March 2014 Published  July 2014

The aim of this paper is to study radial symmetry properties for ground state solutions of elliptic equations involving a regional fractional Laplacian, namely \begin{eqnarray} (-\Delta)_{\rho}^{\alpha}u + u = f(u) \quad \mbox{in} \ \mathbb{R}^{n}, \ \ \mbox{for} \ \ \alpha\in (0,1). \end{eqnarray} In [9], the authors proved that problem (1) has a ground state solution. In this work we prove that the ground state level is achieved by a radially symmetry solution. The proof is carried out by using variational methods jointly with rearrangement arguments.
Citation: Patricio Felmer, César Torres. Radial symmetry of ground states for a regional fractional Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2014, 13 (6) : 2395-2406. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2014.13.2395
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