On the uniqueness of ground states of non-local equations

Frank, Rupert L.

Journées équations aux dérivées partielles (2011), article no. 5, 10 p.

We review our joint result with E. Lenzmann about the uniqueness of ground state solutions of non-linear equations involving the fractional Laplacian and provide an alternate uniqueness proof for an equation related to the intermediate long-wave equation.

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