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Supercritical elliptic problems on a perturbation of the ball

Analysis of PDEs 2013-10-28 v2

Abstract

We examine the H\'enon equation Δu=xαup -\Delta u =|x|^\alpha u^p in ΩRN \Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N with u=0u=0 on Ω \partial \Omega where 0<α 0 < \alpha. We show there exists a sequence {pk}k[N+2N2,pα(N)] \{p_k\}_k \subset [ \frac{N+2}{N-2}, p_{\alpha}(N)] with p1<p2<p3<...p_1 < p_2 <p_3 < ..., pkpα(N) p_k \nearrow p_{\alpha}(N) such that for any N+2N2p<pα(N) \frac{N+2}{N-2} \le p < p_{\alpha}(N), which avoids {pk}k \{p_k\}_k , there exists a positive classical solution of the H\'enon equation, provided Ω \Omega is a sufficiently small perturbation of the unit ball. We also examine the Lane-Emden-Fowler equation in the case of an exterior domain; ie. Δu=up -\Delta u = u^p in Ω \Omega, an exterior domain, with u=0 u=0 on Ω \partial \Omega. We show the existence of N+2N2p1<p2<p3<... \frac{N+2}{N-2} \le p_1 < p_2 < p_3<... with pk p_k \rightarrow \infty such that if N+2N2<p \frac{N+2}{N-2} < p, which avoids {pk}k\{p_k\}_k, then there exists a positive \emph{fast decay} classical solution, provided Ω \Omega is a sufficiently small perturbation of the exterior of the unit ball.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1302.0364,
  title  = {Supercritical elliptic problems on a perturbation of the ball},
  author = {Craig Cowan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.0364},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

Accepted, Journal of Differential Equations. In this second version of the paper the main theorem is improved, following a suggestion by the anonymous referee