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Positive and nodal single-layered solutions to supercritical elliptic problems above the higher critical exponents

Analysis of PDEs 2017-03-08 v1

Abstract

We study the problem% Δv+λv=vp2v in Ω,v=0 on Ω,  -\Delta v+\lambda v=| v| ^{p-2}v\text{ in }\Omega ,\text{\qquad}v=0\text{ on $\partial\Omega$},\text{ }% for λR\lambda\in\mathbb{R} and supercritical exponents p,p, in domains of the form% Ω:={(y,z)RNm1×Rm+1:(y,z)Θ}, \Omega:=\{(y,z)\in\mathbb{R}^{N-m-1}\times\mathbb{R}^{m+1}:(y,| z| )\in\Theta\}, where m1,m\geq1, Nm3,N-m\geq3, and Θ\Theta is a bounded domain in R\mathbb{R}% ^{N-m} whose closure is contained in RNm1×(0,)\mathbb{R}^{N-m-1}\times(0,\infty). Under some symmetry assumptions on Θ\Theta, we show that this problem has infinitely many solutions for every λ\lambda in an interval which contains [0,)[0,\infty) and p>2p>2 up to some number which is larger than the (m+1)st(m+1)^{st} critical exponent 2N,m:=2(Nm)Nm22_{N,m}^{\ast}:=\frac{2(N-m)}{N-m-2}. We also exhibit domains with a shrinking hole, in which there are a positive and a nodal solution which concentrate on a sphere, developing a single layer that blows up at an mm-dimensional sphere contained in the boundary of Ω,\Omega, as the hole shrinks and p2N,mp\rightarrow2_{N,m}^{\ast} from above. The limit profile of the positive solution, in the transversal direction to the sphere of concentration, is a rescaling of the standard bubble, whereas that of the nodal solution is a rescaling of a nonradial sign-changing solution to the problem% Δu=u2n2u,uD1,2(Rn), -\Delta u=| u| ^{2_{n}^{\ast}-2}u,\text{\qquad}u\in D^{1,2}(\mathbb{R}^{n}), where 2n:=2nn22_{n}^{\ast}:=\frac{2n}{n-2} is the critical exponent in dimension n.n.\medskip

Cite

@article{arxiv.1703.02257,
  title  = {Positive and nodal single-layered solutions to supercritical elliptic problems above the higher critical exponents},
  author = {Monica Clapp and Matteo Rizzi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.02257},
  year   = {2017}
}