Asymptotic behavior of ground states of quasilinear elliptic problems with two vanishing parameters. II. (Q1412656)

In the present study the authors deal with the ground states of the quasilinear elliptic equation \[ -\Delta_mu=-\delta u^{m-1}+u^{p-1} \text{ in }\mathbb{R}^N\tag{1} \] in which \(1<m<N\), \(m<p<m^*\), \(\delta> 0\) and \(m^*\) is the critical Sobolev exponent \(m^*=\frac{Nm}{N-m}\). Here by \(\Delta_m\) is denoted \(\Delta_mu:=\text{div}(|\nabla u|^{m-2}\nabla u)\). The authors mainly interested in a radially symmetric solutions for (1). The authors present the exact asymptotic behaviour of the ground state, for any \(1<m<N\), both at the origin and outside the origin, when the equation tends to critical growth. Moreover, the authors obtain the ``equilibrium'' relation between \(\varepsilon(p=m^*-\varepsilon)\) and \(\delta\) so that when they both vanish according to this relation, ground states neither blow up nor vanish. Part I, cf. ibid. 19, No. 4, 477--504 (2002; Zbl 1013.35031), Part III, J. Differ. Equations 198, No. 1, 53--90 (2004; Zbl 1046.35043).