Concentration on surfaces for a singularly perturbed Neumann problem in three-dimensional domains (Q2434675)

The authors study the singularly perturbed equation \[ \varepsilon^2\Delta u-u+u^p=0, \; u>0, p>1 \] in a bounded domain \(\Omega\) of \({\mathbb R}^3\), subject to homogeneous Neumann boundary condition \(\frac{\partial u}{\partial n}=0\). Let \(\Gamma\) be a hypersurface intersecting \(\partial\Omega\) at the right angle along the boundary \(\partial\Gamma\) and satisfying a non-degeneracy condition. The main result of the paper establishes the existence of a solution \(u_{\varepsilon}\) concentrating along a surface \(\tilde \Gamma\), such that \(\tilde \Gamma\) is close to \(\Gamma\), exponentially small in \(\varepsilon\) at any positive distance from the surface \(\tilde\Gamma\) provided \(\varepsilon\) is small and away from certain critical numbers.