On the number of blowing-up solutions to a nonlinear elliptic equation with critical growth (Q2477962)

The paper deals with the problem: \[ -\Delta w+V(x)w=n(n-2)w^{\frac{n+2}{n-2}-\varepsilon}\quad \text{in}\,\,\mathbb R^n,\, n\geqslant 3,\,\varepsilon>0, \] \[ w(x)>0\quad \forall\,x\in\mathbb R^n,\, w\in D^{1,2}(\mathbb R^n), \] where positive potential \(V:\mathbb R^n\to\mathbb R^1\) satisfies suitable conditions, \(D^{1,2}(\mathbb R^n)\) is the completion of \(C^\infty_0(\mathbb R^n)\) with respect to the norm \(\| u\|_{1,2}=(\int_{\mathbb R^n}|\nabla u|^2 dx)^{1/2}\). There are proved estimates from below of the number of solutions which blow up at a suitable critical point of the potential \(V\) as the parameter \(\varepsilon\) goes to zero. Additionally, there are obtained sufficient conditions on the structure of the potential \(V\) in the neighborhood of its critical points \(y_0\), which guarantee absence of such a blowing up and concentrating at \(y_0\) solutions.