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On Multiple Mixed Interior and Boundary Peak Solutions for Some Singularly Perturbed Neumann Problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Changfeng Gui  and
Juncheng Wei
Changfeng Gui
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia email: cgui@math.ubc.ca
Juncheng Wei
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong email: wei@math.cuhk.edu.hk
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Abstract

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We consider the problem

$$\left\{ \begin{matrix} {{\varepsilon }^{2}}\Delta u-u+f(u)=0,u>0 & \text{in}\,\Omega \\ \frac{\partial u}{\partial v}=0\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\, & \text{on}\,\partial \Omega , \\\end{matrix} \right.$$

where $\Omega $ is a bounded smooth domain in ${{R}^{N}},\varepsilon >0$ is a small parameter and $f$ is a superlinear, subcritical nonlinearity. It is known that this equation possesses multiple boundary spike solutions that concentrate, as $\varepsilon $ approaches zero, at multiple critical points of the mean curvature function $H(P),P\in \partial \Omega $. It is also proved that this equation has multiple interior spike solutions which concentrate, as $\varepsilon \to 0$, at sphere packing points in $\Omega $.

In this paper, we prove the existence of solutions with multiple spikes both on the boundary and in the interior. The main difficulty lies in the fact that the boundary spikes and the interior spikes usually have different scales of error estimation. We have to choose a special set of boundary spikes to match the scale of the interior spikes in a variational approach.

Keywords

35B4035B4535J40mixed multiple spikesnonlinear elliptic equations
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , 01 June 2000 , pp. 522 - 538
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2000

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