In this paper, we study the existence and concentration behavior of a nodal solution to a kind of semilinear elliptic equation with Dirichlet boundary value by using minimax and truncation methods.Let Ω (?) RN be a domain with smooth boundary. We consider the semilinear elliptic equationwhere V(x) is a Holder continuous function, satisfying(V2) there exists a bounded domain A compactly contained in Ω such thatand f(s) ∈ C1(R) satisfies (f1) f(s) = o(|s|), as s→0. (f2) there exists 1 < p < 2* -1 such that(f3) there exists 2 < θ ≤ p + 1 such thatIt is well known that if f(s)∈ C1(R) satisfies (f1) and (f2), then the functionalis well-defined and Iε ∈ C2(H, R). The derivatives of Iε areTherefore, the weak solutions of (Pε) are exactly the critical points of Iε. The main result in this paper is in the following:Theorem: Let f(s) ∈ C1(R) satisfy (f1) ~ (f4) and V(x) satisfy (V1)~ (V2). Then there exists ε0 > 0 such that problem (Pε) possesses a nodal solution uε∈ H01(Ω) for every ε ∈ (0, ε0). Moreover, uε has just one positive local maximum point Pε1 ∈ A (hence global) and one negative local minimum point Pε2∈ A (hence global). We also have andwhere M,β are positive constants.Remark: Under the hypotheses of the above theorem and assuming that f(s) is an odd function, CO. Alves and S.H.M. Soares obtained the above result in [3]. In this paper, we get the same conclusion without the oddness of f(s). |