Compactness along the branch of semistable and unstable solutions for an elliptic problem with a singular nonlinearity

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Abstract: We study the branch of semi-stable and unstable solutions (i.e., those whose Morse index is at most one) of the Dirichlet boundary value problem Deltau=fraclambdaf(x)(1u)2 on a bounded domain OmegasubsetRN, which models --among other things-- a simple electrostatic Micro-Electromechanical System (MEMS) device. We extend the results of [11] relating to the minimal branch, by obtaining compactness along unstable branches for 1leqNleq7 on any domain Omega and for a large class of "permittivity profiles" f . We also show the remarkable fact that power-like profiles f(x)simeq|x|alpha can push back the critical dimension N=7 of this problem, by establishing compactness for the semi-stable branch on the unit ball, also for Ngeq8 and as long as alpha>alphaN=frac3N144sqrt64+2sqrt6 . As a byproduct, we are able to follow the second branch of the bifurcation diagram and prove the existence of a second solution for lambda in a natural range. In all these results, the conditions on the space-dimension and on the power of the profile are essentially sharp.




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