Infinitely many positive solutions of a Gross-Pitaevskii equation in the presence of a harmonic potential and combined nonlinearities

TL;DR

This paper proves the existence of infinitely many positive solutions to a supercritical Gross-Pitaevskii equation with harmonic potential, confirming numerical predictions and extending bifurcation analysis.

Contribution

It constructs multiple solutions bifurcating from singular solutions near the first eigenvalue, using a matching argument applicable to various nonlinear perturbations.

Findings

Confirmed numerical predictions of multiple solutions

Constructed solutions bifurcating from singular solutions

Applicable to supercritical and perturbed cases

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to address an important conjecture in the field of differential equations in the presence of a harmonic potential. While in the subcritical case, the uniqueness of positive solution has been addressed by Hirose and Ohta in 2007, the problem has remained open for years in the supercritical case. In Hadj Selem et al., the authors obtained interesting numerical computations suggesting that for some bifurcating parameter $\lambda$, the equation has many positive solutions that vanish at infinity. In this paper, we provide a proof to this claim by constructing an accountable number of solutions that bifurcate from the unique singular solutions with $\lambda$ close to the first eigenvalue $\lambda_1$ of the harmonic operator $-\Delta + |x|^2$. Our method hinges on a matching argument, and applies to the supercritical case, and to the supercritical case in the presence of a subcritical, critical or supercritical perturbation.