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We study the following system of equations known as Schrödinger–Poisson problem
where \({{{\epsilon > 0}}}\) is a small parameter, \({{{f{:}\;\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}}}}\) is given, N ≥ 3 , a N is the surface measure of the unit sphere in \({{{\mathbb{R}^{N}}}}\) and the unknowns are \({{{\upsilon, \phi{:}\;\mathbb{R}^{N}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}}}}\) . We construct non-radial sign-changing multi-peak solutions in the semiclassical limit. The peaks are displaced in suitable symmetric configurations and collapse to the same point as \({{{\epsilon}}}\)→ 0. The proof is based on the Lyapunov–Schmidt reduction.
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Ianni, I., Vaira, G. Non-radial sign-changing solutions for the Schrödinger–Poisson problem in the semiclassical limit. Nonlinear Differ. Equ. Appl. 22, 741–776 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00030-014-0303-0
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