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Glueing a peak to a non-zero limiting profile for a critical Moser-Trudinger equation

Analysis of PDEs 2018-07-27 v1

Abstract

Druet [6] proved that if (fγ)γ(f_\gamma)_\gamma is a sequence of Moser-Trudinger type nonlinearities with critical growth, and if (uγ)γ(u_\gamma)_\gamma solves {Δu=fγ(x,u),  u>0 in Ω,u=0 on Ω, \begin{cases} &\Delta u =f_\gamma(x,u)\,,~~ u>0\text{ in }\Omega\,,\\ &u =0\text{ on }\partial\Omega\,, \end{cases} and converges weakly in H01H^1_0 to some uu_\infty, then the Dirichlet energy is quantified, namely there exists an integer N0N\ge 0 such that the energy of uγu_\gamma converges to 4πN4\pi N plus the Dirichlet energy of uu_\infty. As a crucial step to get the general existence results of [7], it was more recently proved in [8] that, for a specific class of nonlinearities, the loss of compactness (i.e. N>0N>0) implies that u0u_\infty\equiv 0. In contrast, we prove here that there exist sequences (fγ)γ(f_\gamma)_\gamma of Moser-Trudinger type nonlinearities which admit a noncompact sequence of solutions (uγ)γ(u_\gamma)_\gamma having a nontrivial weak limit.

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@article{arxiv.1807.10098,
  title  = {Glueing a peak to a non-zero limiting profile for a critical Moser-Trudinger equation},
  author = {Gabriele Mancini and Pierre-Damien Thizy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.10098},
  year   = {2018}
}