Perturbing singular solutions of the Gelfand problem

Abstract: he equation

- D e l t a u = l a m b d a e^{u}

posed in the unit ball

B s u b s e t e q R^{N}

, with homogeneous Dirichlet condition

u |_{p a r t i a l B} = 0

, has the singular solution

U = l o g f r a c 1 | x |^{2}

when

l a m b d a = 2 (N - 2)

. If

N g e 4

we show that under small deformations of the ball there is a singular solution

(u, l a m b d a)

close to

(U, 2 (N - 2))

. In dimension

N g e 11

it corresponds to the extremal solution -- the one associated to the largest

l a m b d a

for which existence holds. In contrast, we prove that if the deformation is sufficiently large then even when

N g e 10

, the extremal solution remains bounded in many cases.

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