Existence of solitary waves in higher dimensions

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Walter A. Strauss1
1Department of Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, USA

Tóm tắt

The elliptic equation Δu=F(u) possesses non-trivial solutions inR n which are exponentially small at infinity, for a large class of functionsF. Each of them provides a solitary wave of the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation.

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