The solution gap of the Brezis-Nirenberg problem on the hyperbolic space

Abstract: We consider the positive solutions of the nonlinear eigenvalue problem

- D e l t a_{m a t h b b H^{n}} u = l a m b d a u + u^{p},

with

p = f r a c n + 2 n - 2

and

u i n H_{0}^{1} (O m e g a),

where

O m e g a

is a geodesic ball of radius

h e t a_{1}

on

m a t h b b H^{n} .

For radial solutions, this equation can be written as an ODE having

n

as a parameter. In this setting, the problem can be extended to consider real values of

n .

We show that if

2 < n < 4

this problem has a unique positive solution if and only if

l a m b d a i n l e f t (n (n - 2) / 4 + L^{*},,, l a m b d a_{1} i g h t) .

Here

L^{*}

is the first positive value of

L = - e l l (e l l + 1)

for which a suitably defined associated Legendre function

P_{e l l}^{- a l p h a} (c o s h h e t a) > 0

if

0 < h e t a < h e t a_{1}

and

P_{e l l}^{- a l p h a} (c o s h h e t a_{1}) = 0,

with

a l p h a = (2 - n) / 2.

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