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Energy quantization of the two dimensional Lane-Emden equation with vanishing potentials

Analysis of PDEs 2023-10-10 v1

Abstract

We study the concentration phenomenon of the Lane-Emden equation with vanishing potentials {Δun=Wn(x)unpn,un>0,in Ω,un=0,on Ω,ΩpnWn(x)unpndxC,\begin{cases} -\Delta u_n=W_n(x)u_n^{p_n},\quad u_n>0,\quad\text{in}~\Omega, u_n=0,\quad\text{on}~\partial\Omega, \int_\Omega p_n W_n(x)u_n^{p_n}dx\le C, \end{cases} where Ω\Omega is a smooth bounded domain in R2\mathbb{R}^2, Wn(x)0W_n(x)\geq 0 are bounded functions with zeros in Ω\Omega, and pnp_n\to\infty as nn\to\infty. A typical example is Wn(x)=x2αW_n(x)=|x|^{2\alpha} with 0Ω0\in\Omega, i.e. the equation turns to be the well-known H\'enon equation. The asymptotic behavior for α=0\alpha=0 has been well studied in the literature. While for α>0\alpha>0, the problem becomes much more complicated since a singular Liouville equation appears as a limit problem. In this paper, we study the case α>0\alpha>0 and prove a quantization property (suppose 00 is a concentration point) pnx2αun(x)pn1+t8πet2i=1kδai+8π(1+α)et2ctδ0,t=0,1,2,p_n|x|^{2\alpha}u_n(x)^{p_n-1+t}\to 8\pi e^{\frac{t}{2}}\sum_{i=1}^k\delta_{a_i}+8\pi(1+\alpha)e^{\frac{t}{2}}c^t\delta_0, \quad t=0,1,2, for some k0k\ge0, aiΩ{0}a_i\in\Omega\setminus\{0\} and some c1c\ge1. Moreover, for α∉N\alpha\not\in\mathbb{N}, we show that the blow up must be simple, i.e. c=1c=1. As applications, we also obtain the complete asymptotic behavior of ground state solutions for the H\'enon equation.

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@article{arxiv.2310.05162,
  title  = {Energy quantization of the two dimensional Lane-Emden equation with vanishing potentials},
  author = {Zhijie Chen and Houwang Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.05162},
  year   = {2023}
}