Sharp asymptotic behavior of radial solutions of some planar semilinear elliptic problems (Q2235668)

Following an extensive review of the literature, the authors discuss radial solutions for Dirichlet or Newmann problems in the unit ball \(B\) of \(\mathbb{R}^2\) for Lane-Emden (\(\alpha =0\)) and Hénon (\(\alpha >0\)) equations \[ -\Delta u = |x|^\alpha |u|^{p-1}u \ \ \mbox{ with } \ \ p>1. \] A detailed characterization of properties of the solutions is given in the limit case \(p\to \infty\). These results lead also to the characterization of solutions in the entire \(\mathbb{R}^2\). The paper ends with a conjecture on the Morse index of solutions for the Dirichlet Lane-Emden case.