Bubble accumulations in an elliptic Neumann problem with critical Sobolev exponent

  • Changshou Lin
  • , Liping Wang
  • , Juncheng Wei*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We consider the following critical elliptic Neumann problem Δ u+\mu u=ufrac{N+2}{N-2}, u > 0 in Ω u n}=0} on ℝ Ω , Ω; being a smooth bounded domain in ℝN, N ≥ 7, μ > 0 is a large number. We show that at a positive nondegenerate local minimum point Q 0 of the mean curvature (we may assume that Q 0 = 0 and the unit normal at Q 0 is - e N ) for any fixed integer K 2, there exists a μ K > 0 such that for μ > μ K , the above problem has K-bubble solution u μ concentrating at the same point Q 0. More precisely, we show that u μ has K local maximum points Q 1 μ , ... , Q K μ Ω with the property that uμ (Qjμ ∼ μn, Qj to Q 0, j=1,...,K, and μ {N-3}{N}} ((Q_1 μ) {'},..., (Q_Kμ) approach an optimal configuration of the following functional (*) Find out the optimal configuration that minimizes the following functional: ℝ Q 1,..., QK= c_1 ∑ j=1K j=1K + c22 ∑ i = j {1}j=1K{N-2}} where Qi μ= Qi μ, Qi μ, c_1, c_2 > 0} are two generic constants and φ (Q) = Q T G Q with G = (aij H(Q 0)).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)153-182
Number of pages30
JournalCalculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations
Volume30
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2007
Externally publishedYes

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