Layers With Nonsmooth Interface in a Semilinear Elliptic Problem

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Let \(\Omega\) be a smooth bounded domain in \(\mathbb R^ m\), \(m \geq 1\). In this paper we consider the semilinear Neumann problem \[ \varepsilon^ 2\Delta u=f(u,x) \text{ in } \Omega,\quad \partial u/ \partial n=0 \text{ on } \partial \Omega \tag{1} \] where \(f\) is of class \(C^ 1\) and \(f(\cdot,x)\) has precisely three zeros \(h_ -(x)<h_ 0(x)<h_ +(x)\) for each \(x \in \overline\Omega\). We also assume that \(h_ \pm\) are nondegenerate and stable, namely \(f_ u(h_ \pm(x),x)>0\) for all \(x \in \overline\Omega\). We are interested in solutions to (1) exhibiting a transition layer from \(h_{-}\) to \(h_ +\) as \(\varepsilon\) approaches zero. More precisely, we look for two open subsets \(\Omega_{+}\) and \(\Omega_{-}\) of \(\Omega\) and a family of solutions \(\{u^ \varepsilon\}_{\varepsilon>0}\) to problem (1) such that \(u_ \varepsilon\) approaches \(h_ \pm\) on compact subsets of \(\Omega_ \pm\).




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