Partial regularity of stable solutions to the supercritical equations and its applications (Q435110)

This paper concerns the partial regularity of \(u\) satisfying a stability condition and solution to the supercritical equation: \(-\Delta u=u^p\) in \(B_1\) the unit ball in \(\mathbb R^n\), with \(n \geq 3\) and \(p\) supercritical. There exists \(p_c(n)\) such that for \(p<p_c(n)\), such solutions \(u\) are regular. For \(p \geq p_c(n)\), there exists \(n_p\) such that \(p_c(n_p) \leq p < p_c(n_p-1)\). The main result establishes that the dimension of the singular set of \(u\) is less or equal to \(n-n_p\). The proof uses Federer's dimension reduction principle. As an application to this partial regularity result, for \(n \geq 11\) and \(p_c(n)\leq p<p_c(n-1)\), it is proved that a stable smooth positive solution of \(-\Delta u=u^p\) in \(\mathbb R^n\) is radially symmetric.