Concentration at sub-manifolds for an elliptic Dirichlet problem near high critical exponents

Abstract: Let

O m e g a

be a open bounded domain in

m a t h b b R^{n}

with smooth boundary

p a r t i a l O m e g a

. We consider the equation

D e l t a u + u^{f r a c n - k + 2 n - k - 2 - v a r e p s i l o n} = 0, h b o x i n, O m e g a

, under zero Dirichlet boundary condition, where

v a r e p s i l o n

is a small positive parameter. We assume that there is a

k

-dimensional closed, embedded minimal submanifold

K

of

p a r t i a l O m e g a

, which is non-degenerate, and along which a certain weighted average of sectional curvatures of

p a r t i a l O m e g a

is negative. Under these assumptions, we prove existence of a sequence

v a r e p s i l o n = v a r e p s i l o n_{j}

and a solution

u_{v a r e p s i l o n}

which concentrate along

K

, as

v a r e p s i l o n o 0^{+}

, in the sense that

| abla u_{varepsilon} |^2, ightharpoonup , S_{n-k}^{frac{n-k}{2}} ,delta_K quad mbox{as} varepsilon o 0

where

d e l t a_{K}

stands for the Dirac measure supported on

K

and

S_{n - k}

is an explicit positive constant. This result generalizes the one obtained by del Pino-Musso-Pacard, where the case

k = 1

is considered.

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