Existance of symmetric multi-peaked solutions to singularly perturbed semilinear elliptic problems (Q4521113)

The authors consider the existence of multi-peaked solutions \(u_{\varepsilon }\) to the following singularly perturbed semilinear Dirichlet problem \[ - \varepsilon^{2} \triangle u + u = f(u) \quad \text{in }\Omega, \qquad u=0 \quad \text{on } \partial\Omega, \qquad u >0 \quad \text{in }\Omega, \] \(\Omega \subset {\mathbb R}^{N} (N >2) \) is a bounded domain or an exterior domain ( \( {\mathbb R}^{N} \setminus \Omega \) is bounded) with smooth boundary, having certain symmetries. The existence of a \(k\)-peaked solution \(u_{\varepsilon } \), for any \(k \geq 2\), provided \(\varepsilon \) is sufficiently small, is established.