A solution to a slightly subcritical elliptic problem with non-power nonlinearity (Q828299)

Consider the following nonlinear problem \[ \begin{cases} -\Delta u=f_{\epsilon}(u), & \text{in }\Omega,\\ u=0, & \text{on }\partial\Omega, \end{cases} \] where \(\Omega\) is a bounded smooth domain in \(\mathbb R^N\) (\(N\ge 3\)) and the nonlinearity is \[ f_{\epsilon}(u)=\frac{|u|^{2^*-2}u}{[\ln(e+|u|)]^{\epsilon}}, \] for \(\epsilon\ge0\) and \(2^*=\frac{2N}{N-2}\). The authors show that this problem admits a solution for \(0<\epsilon<\epsilon_0\) (for some \(\epsilon_0\)), and that such a solution blows up at a non-degenerate point of the Robin function as \(\epsilon\to 0\). As the standard arguments for existence do not work for this type of nonlinearity, the proof is based on new ideas and relies on a Ljapunov-Schmidt reduction method.