Singular limits in Liouville-type equations (Q2388368)

The authors consider Liouville-type equations \(\Delta u+\varepsilon^2 k(x) e^u=0\), \(\varepsilon>0\), in a bounded smooth domain \(\Omega\) in the plane, with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. This type of equation arises in a wide range of applications, for example in astrophysics and combustion theory. They find conditions under which there exists a solution \(u_\varepsilon\) which blows up at exactly \(m\) points as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow0\) and satisfies \(\lim_{\varepsilon\rightarrow0}\varepsilon^2 \int_\Omega k(x) e^{u_\varepsilon}=8m\pi\). One of the aims of the authors here is to manage without a certain hard-to-check nondegeneracy assumption.