Sign-changing prescribed mass solutions for $L^2$-supercritical NLS on compact metric graphs

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the existence of multiple sign-changing solutions of prescribed mass for a mass-supercritical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation set on a compact metric graph. In particular, we obtain, in the supercritical mass regime, the first multiplicity result for prescribed mass solutions on compact metric graphs. As a byproduct, we prove that any eigenvalue of the associated linear operator is a bifurcation point. Our approach relies on the introduction a new kind of link and on the use of gradient flow techniques on a constraint. It can be transposed to other problems posed on a bounded domain.