Two dimensional Emden-Fowler equation with exponential nonlinearity (Q4027445)

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0745.00053.] We consider the Emden-Fowler equation with the exponential nonlinearity \[ \begin{cases}-\Delta u = \lambda e^ u & \text{(in \(\Omega\))}\\ u = 0 & \text{(on \(\partial \Omega\))},\end{cases}\tag{P} \] where \(\lambda\) is a positive constant and \(\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^ n\) is a bounded domain with smooth boundary \(\partial \Omega\). The study may be divided into three parts: local, asymptotic, and global analysis, respectively. Local analysis is to pick up mild solutions for (P), the character of which is close to the trivial solution \(u = 0\) of \(\lambda = 0\). In some sense the method has been established, based on implicit function theory, comparison principle, and so on. Asymptotic analysis is to classify singular limits, that is, the limiting functions of the classical solutions for \(P\) as \(\lambda \downarrow 0\), and to construct classical solutions close to those singular limits. Finally, a global analysis will reveal how those singular limits are connected globally with each other in the \(\lambda - u\) plane.