Special Session 117: Advances on nonlinear elliptic PDEs

Special wave forms for a generalized semilinear wave equation
Julia Henninger
KIT Karlsruhe
Germany
Co-Author(s):    Wolfgang Reichel, Sebastian Ohrem
Abstract:
We study the generalized semilinear wave equation $\begin{align*} V(x) u_{tt} - d(t) M(x, \partial_{x} ) u - V(x) |u|^{p-1} u=0 \quad \text{ for } \quad (x,t) \in \mathbb{R}^N \times \mathbb{R} \end{align*}$ where $M$ is elliptic and $d$ is a positive potential. Our goal is to construct solutions which are localized in space and/or time by means of variational methods. We present our approach with its main difficulties and discuss suitable examples for $M$ and $d$. This is joint work with Sebastian Ohrem and Wolfgang Reichel.