Compactness along the branch of semistable and unstable solutions for an elliptic problem with a singular nonlinearity

By P. Esposito, Nassif Ghoussoub, Yujin Guo. 2005

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We study the branch of semistable and unstable solutions (i.e., those whose Morse index is at most 1) of the Dirichlet boundary value problem − Δu = λf(x)/(1 − u)2 on a bounded domain Ω ⊂ ℝN, which models—among other things—a simple electrostatic microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device. We extend the results of 11 relating to the minimal branch, by obtaining compactness along unstable branches for 1 ≤ N ≤ 7 on any domain Ω and for a large class of “permittivity profiles” f. We also show the remarkable fact that powerlike profiles f(x) ≅ |x|α can push back the critical dimension N = 7 of this problem by establishing compactness for the semistable branch on the unit ball, also for N ≥ 8 and as long as $$\alpha > \alpha_{N}= {3N-14-4\sqrt{6} \over 4+2\sqrt{6}}.$$ As a byproduct, we are able to follow the second branch of the bifurcation diagram and prove the existence of a second solution for λ in a natural range. In all these results, the conditions on the space dimension and on the power of the profile are essentially sharp. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Subfields: Applied Mathematics, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Mathematical Physics

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In Applied Mathematics

  1. P. Esposito
  2. Yujin Guo
  3. Nassif Ghoussoub
  4. Daomin Cao

In Computational Theory and Mathematics

  1. Nassif Ghoussoub
  2. P. Esposito

In Mathematical Physics

  1. Nassif Ghoussoub
  2. P. Esposito

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