Perturbation in a free boundary problem

DOI10.1006/JMAA.1994.1259MaRDI QIDQ1336162zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Abdelkader Boucherif, Sidi Mohamed Bouguima

Publication date 18 October 1994

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jmaa.1994.1259

zbMATH Keywords

discontinuous nonlinearitypositive radial solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Nonlinear boundary value problems for linear elliptic equations (35J65) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35)

Review text

This paper is concerned with the Dirichlet boundary value problem for a semilinear elliptic partial differential equation with a discontinuous nonlinearity on the unit ball \(B\) in \(\mathbb{R}^2\). Precisely, the authors consider the problem for \(u\) with two positive parameters \(\lambda\) and \(\varepsilon\): \[ - \Delta u= (\lambda+ \varepsilon g(u)) H(u- 1)\quad\text{in }B,\;u= h\quad\text{on } \partial B, \] where \(H\) denotes the Heaviside function, and \(g\) and \(h\) are given functions. This problem is regarded as a free boundary problem, where the free boundary is the boundary of the set \(\{x|u(x)> 1\}\), dividing the domain \(B\) into two regions, where \(-\Delta u= \lambda+ \varepsilon g(u)\) or \(- \Delta u= 0\). When \(\varepsilon= 0\), \(h\equiv 0\), and \(\lambda> 4e\), there exist two explicit positive radial solutions whose free boundaries are circles. In this paper, by using the implicit function theorem the authors prove the existence of the solution when \(\lambda> 4e\) and \((h, \lambda, \varepsilon)\) is near \((0, \lambda, 0)\). The proof follows closely that of \textit{R. Alexander} [Math. Methods Appl. Sci. 4, 131-142 (1982; Zbl 0501.35078)].

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