Stationary periodic solutions for nonlinear Dirac equations with non-coercive nonlinearity II: splitting

Abstract

We study stationary periodic solutions of nonlinear Dirac equations with Soler-type nonlinearities. By splitting off a circle factor the problem is reduced to dimension two. The nonlinearity degenerates along a Lorentz null cone, causing difficulties for the variational analysis. Using a coercive perturbation we first obtain minimax perturbed solutions. The key new ingredient is a quantitative separation of the lowest positive eigenspace of the reduced Dirac operator from the null cone; together with a uniform resolvent estimate, it yields uniform bounds that allow us to remove the perturbation. This produces nontrivial periodic solutions for temporal frequencies near the corresponding positive spectral threshold, including frequencies above the mass.