Solutions of semilinear elliptic equations in tubes

DOI10.1007/S12220-012-9342-0zbMATH Open1304.35307arXiv1210.1705OpenAlexW2007948078MaRDI QIDQ472011FDOQ472011

Filomena Pacella, Frank Pacard, Berardino Sciunzi

Publication date: 18 November 2014

Published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a smooth compact k-dimensional manifold Lambda embedded in $mathbb{R}^m$, with mgeq 2 and 1leq kleq m-1, and given epsilon>0, we define B_epsilon (Lambda) to be the geodesic tubular neighborhood of radius epsilon about Lambda. In this paper, we construct positive solutions of the semilinear elliptic equation Delta u + u^p = 0 in B_epsilon (Lambda) with u = 0 on partial B_epsilon (Lambda), when the parameter epsilon is chosen small enough. In this equation, the exponent p satisfies either p > 1 when n:=m-k leq 2 or pin (1, frac{n+2}{n-2}) when n>2. In particular p can be critical or supercritical in dimension mgeq 3. As epsilon tends to zero, the solutions we construct have Morse index tending to infinity. Moreover, using a Pohozaev type argument, we prove that our result is sharp in the sense that there are no positive solutions for p>frac{n+2}{n-2}, ngeq 3, if epsilon is sufficiently small.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1705

zbMATH Keywords

semilinear elliptic equationPohozaev identitysupercritical nonlinearity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Positive solutions to PDEs (35B09) Semilinear elliptic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian (35J91) PDEs on manifolds (35R01)

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