Existence and instability of spike layer solutions to singular perturbation problems (Q1865328): Difference between revisions

The authors propose an abstract framework to establish existence and to compute the Morse index of spike layer solutions of singularly perturbed semilinear elliptic equations. A nonlinear Lyapunov-Schmidt scheme is used to reduce the problem to one on a normally hyperbolic manifold and the related linearized problem is also analyzed by this reduction. As an application, it is shown the existence of a multi-peak spike layer solution with peaks on the boundary of the domain. Precise estimates of the small eigenvalues of an operator obtained by linearizing a spike layer solution are also established.