Positive solutions of slightly supercritical elliptic equations in symmetric domains

  • Riccardo Molle

    Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Via della Ricerca Scientifica n. 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
  • Donato Passaseo

    Dipartimento di Matematica “E. De Giorgi”, Università di Lecce, P.O. Box 193, 73100 Lecce, Italy

Abstract

This paper deals with existence and multiplicity of solutions for problem below, which concentrate and blow-up at a finite number of points as . We give sufficient conditions on which guarantee that the following property holds: there exists such that, for each , problem , for small enough, has at least one solution blowing up as at exactly points. Exploiting the properties of the Green and Robin functions, we also prove that the blow up points approach the boundary of as . Moreover we present some examples which show that may have -spike solutions of this type also when is a contractible domain, not necessarily close to domains with nontrivial topology and, for small and k large enough, even when it is very close to star-shaped domains.

Résumé

Nous démontrons que, si le domaine satisfait certaines conditions, le problème ci-dessous, pour suffisamment petit et grand, admet des solutions qui pour se concentrent et explosent exactement en points. Nous prouvons aussi que le point de concentration s’approche du bord de quand et que le nombre de solutions est arbitrairement grand pourvu que soit suffisamment petit. La méthode de démonstration repose sur les propriétés des fonctions de Green et de Robin du laplacien sur . De plus nous donnons des exemples qui montrent que parmi les ouverts bornés qui satisfont nos conditions, il y en a aussi de contractiles, qui ne sont pas de perturbations d’ouverts non contractiles et peuvent même être arbitrairement proches de domaines étoilés.

Cite this article

Riccardo Molle, Donato Passaseo, Positive solutions of slightly supercritical elliptic equations in symmetric domains. Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire 21 (2004), no. 5, pp. 639–656

DOI 10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2003.09.004