Concentration for an elliptic equation with singular nonlinearity (Q429236)

The paper deals with nontrivial solutions of the equation \[ -\Delta u+\chi_{[u>0]}u^{-\beta}=\lambda u^p,\quad u\geq 0\;\text{in}\;\Omega \] with zero Dirichlet data on \(\partial\Omega,\) where \(\Omega\subset {\mathbb R}^N,\) \(N\geq2,\) is a bounded domain with smooth boundary, \(0<\beta<1,\) \(1\leq p< {{N+2}\over {N-2}}\) if \(N\geq 3,\) \(p\geq 1\) if \(N=2,\) and \(\lambda>0.\) If \(p>1,\) existence of nontrivial solutions is proved for each \(\lambda>0.\) When \(\lambda\to+\infty,\) the authors show that the least energy solutions concentrate around a point that maximizes the distance to the boundary. The behaviour is studied also when \(\lambda\to0.\) When \(p=1\) similar results are available, which extend previous works on radial solutions in a ball.