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Positive solutions for a critical elliptic equation

Analysis of PDEs 2022-03-01 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we are concerned with the following elliptic equation \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u= Q(x)u^{2^*-1 }+\varepsilon u^{s},~ &{\text{in}~\Omega},\\[1mm] u>0,~ &{\text{in}~\Omega},\\[1mm] u=0, &{\text{on}~\partial \Omega}, \end{cases} \end{equation*} where N3N\geq 3, s[1,21)s\in [1,2^*-1) with 2=2NN22^*=\frac{2N}{N-2}, ε>0\varepsilon>0, Ω\Omega is a smooth bounded domain in RN\mathbb{R}^N. Under some conditions on Q(x)Q(x), Cao and Zhong in Nonlin. Anal. TMA (Vol 29, 1997, 461--483) proved that there exists a single-peak solution for small ε\varepsilon if N4N\geq 4 and s(1,21)s\in (1,2^*-1). And they proposed in Remark 1.7 of their paper that \vskip 0.1cm\begin{center} \emph{``it is interesting to know the existence of single-peak solutions for small ε\varepsilon and s=1s=1''.} \end{center}\vskip 0.1cm \noindent Also it was addressed in Remark 1.8 of their paper that \vskip 0.1cm \begin{center} \emph{``the question of solutions concentrated at several points at the same time is still open''.} \end{center}\vskip 0.1cm \noindent Here we give some confirmative answers to the above two questions. Furthermore, we prove the local uniqueness of the multi-peak solutions. And our results show that the concentration of the solutions to above problem is delicate whether s=1s=1 or s>1s>1.

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@article{arxiv.2202.13721,
  title  = {Positive solutions for a critical elliptic equation},
  author = {Lipeng Duan and Shuying Tian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.13721},
  year   = {2022}
}
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