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A nonexistence result for sign-changing solutions of the Brezis-Nirenberg problem in low dimensions

Analysis of PDEs 2015-02-11 v2

Abstract

We consider the Brezis-Nirenberg problem: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u = \lambda u + |u|^{2^* -2}u & \hbox{in}\ \Omega\\ u=0 & \hbox{on}\ \partial \Omega, \end{cases} \end{equation*} where Ω\Omega is a smooth bounded domain in RN\mathbb{R}^N, N3N\geq 3, 2=2NN22^{*}=\frac{2N}{N-2} is the critical Sobolev exponent and λ>0\lambda>0 a positive parameter. The main result of the paper shows that if N=4,5,6N=4,5,6 and λ\lambda is close to zero there are no sign-changing solutions of the form uλ=PUδ1,ξPUδ2,ξ+wλ,u_\lambda=PU_{\delta_1,\xi}-PU_{\delta_2,\xi}+w_\lambda, where PUδiPU_{\delta_i} is the projection on H01(Ω)H_0^1(\Omega) of the regular positive solution of the critical problem in RN\mathbb{R}^N, centered at a point ξΩ\xi \in \Omega and wλw_\lambda is a remainder term. Some additional results on norm estimates of wλw_\lambda and about the concentrations speeds of tower of bubbles in higher dimensions are also presented.

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@article{arxiv.1406.7681,
  title  = {A nonexistence result for sign-changing solutions of the Brezis-Nirenberg problem in low dimensions},
  author = {Alessandro Iacopetti and Filomena Pacella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.7681},
  year   = {2015}
}

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