Special Session 1: Recent Advances in Brezis-Nirenberg Problem

Normalized solutions to Sobolev critical Schr\odinger equations
Gianmaria Verzini
Politecnico di Milano
Italy
Co-Author(s):    Dario Pierotti, Junwei Yu
Abstract:
We study the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions with prescribed $L^2$-norm for the (stationary) nonlinear Schr\odinger equation with Sobolev critical power nonlinearity. In the free case on the full space, the associated energy functional has a mountain pass geometry on the $L^2$-sphere, which boils down, in higher dimension, to the existence of a mountain pass solution. We consider this problem, either in bounded domains (i.e., the normalized Brezis-Nirenberg problem) or in presence of a potential, wondering (i) whether a local minimum solution appears, thus providing an orbitally stable family of solitons, and (ii) if the existence of a mountain pass solution persists. This talk is based on joint works with Dario Pierotti and Junwei Yu (Politecnico di Milano).