Symmetry of minimizers for some nonlocal variational problems英文精品课件.pdfVIP

Journal of Functional Analysis 254 (2008) 535–592 /locate/jfa Symmetry of minimizers for some nonlocal variational problems Orlando Lopes a , Mihai Mari¸s b,∗ a IMEUSP, Rua do Matao, 1010, Caixa postal 66281, CEP 05315-970, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil b Université de Franche-Comté, Département de Mathématiques UMR 6623, 16, Route de Gray, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France Received 25 May 2007; accepted 13 October 2007 Available online 26 November 2007 Communicated by J.-M. Coron Abstract We present a new approach to study the symmetry of minimizers for a large class of nonlocal variational problems. This approach which generalizes the Reflection method is based on the existence of some integral identities. We study the identities that lead to symmetry results, the functionals that can be considered and the function spaces that can be used. Then we use our method to prove the symmetry of minimizers for a class of variational problems involving the fractional powers of Laplacian, for the generalized Choquard functional and for the standing waves of the Davey–Stewartson equation. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Keywords: Symmetry of minimizers; Nonlocal functional; Minimization under constraints; Fractional powers of Laplacian; Choquard functional; Davey–Stewartson equation 1. Introduction Many important partial differential equations arising in physics are Euler–Lagrange equations of variational problems. Among the solutions of these equations those that correspond to a min- imum of the associated functional (e.g. the “energy”) subject to some c