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Sharp asymptotic profiles for singular solutions to an elliptic equation with a sign-changing nonlinearity

Analysis of PDEs 2017-05-04 v1

Abstract

Given B1(0)B_1(0) the unit ball of Rn\mathbb{R}^n (n3n\geq 3), we study smooth positive singular solutions uC2(B1(0){0})u\in C^2(B_1(0)\setminus \{0\}) to Δu=u2(s)1xsμuq-\Delta u=\frac{u^{2^\star(s)-1}}{|x|^s}-\mu u^q. Here 0<s<20< s<2, 2(s):=2(ns)/(n2)2^\star(s):=2(n-s)/(n-2) is critical for Sobolev embeddings, q>1q>1 and μ>0\mu> 0. When μ=0\mu=0 and s=0s=0, the profile at the singularity 00 was fully described by Caffarelli-Gidas-Spruck. We prove that when μ>0\mu>0 and s>0s>0, besides this profile, two new profiles might occur. We provide a full description of all the singular profiles. Special attention is accorded to solutions such that lim infx0xn22u(x)=0\liminf_{x\to 0}|x|^{\frac{n-2}{2}}u(x)=0 and lim supx0xn22u(x)(0,+)\limsup_{x\to 0}|x|^{\frac{n-2}{2}}u(x)\in (0,+\infty). The particular case q=(n+2)/(n2)q=(n+2)/(n-2) requires a separate analysis which we also perform.

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@article{arxiv.1601.05382,
  title  = {Sharp asymptotic profiles for singular solutions to an elliptic equation with a sign-changing nonlinearity},
  author = {Florica C. Cîrstea and Frédéric Robert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.05382},
  year   = {2017}
}