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Symmetry breaking for semilinear elliptic equations on sectorial domains in ℝ2*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Song-Sun Lin
Song-Sun Lin
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Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-chu, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Synopsis

We first study the Poisson equation Δu = f in Ώω, and , where Ωω = {(r cos θ, r sin θ): 0<r<1, θ ∈(0,ω)} is a sector in ℝ2, ω ∈ (0, 2π), Г0 = {(cos θ, sin θ): θ ∈ (0, ω)} and Г1 = ∂Ωω − Г0,b and λ are in ℝ1. We obtain Schauder-type estimates and Fredholm alternative theory for the problem. We then study the symmetry breaking problem for the Gel'fand equation Δu + λeu = 0 in Ωω and obtain a complete picture about the relationships among three parameters λ, b, and ω in the problem.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 118 , Issue 3-4 , 1991 , pp. 327 - 353
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1991

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