Differential and Integral Equations

On the uniqueness of solutions for a semilinear elliptic problem in convex domains

Angela Pistoia

Abstract

We exhibit a class of convex and nonsymmetric domains $\Omega$ in $\mathbb R^N,$ $N\ge4,$ such that the slightly subcritical problem $$\begin{cases} -\Delta u=u^{{N+2\over N-2}-{\varepsilon}} & \text{ in \Omega, } \\ u>0 & \text{ in \Omega, } \\ u=0 & \text{ on \partial\Omega } \end{cases}$$ does not have any solutions blowing up at more than one point in $\Omega$ as ${\varepsilon}$ goes to zero. Moreover if $\Omega$ is a small perturbation of a convex and symmetric domain, we prove that such a problem has a unique solution provided ${\varepsilon}$ is small enough.

Article information

Source
Differential Integral Equations, Volume 17, Number 11-12 (2004), 1201-1212.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 21 December 2012

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.die/1356060241

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2100022

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1150.35418

Citation

Pistoia, Angela. On the uniqueness of solutions for a semilinear elliptic problem in convex domains. Differential Integral Equations 17 (2004), no. 11-12, 1201--1212. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.die/1356060241