• A Dimurthi

Articles written in Proceedings – Mathematical Sciences

• Failure of Plais-Smale condition and blow-up analysis for the critical exponent problem inR2

Let Ω be a bounded smooth domain inR2. Letf:RR be a smooth non-linearity behaving like exp{s2} ass→∞. LetF denote the primitive off. Consider the functionalJ:H01(Ω)→R given by$$J(u) = \frac{1}{2}\int_\Omega {\left| {\nabla u} \right|^2 dx - } \int_\Omega {F(u)dx.}$$ It can be shown thatJ is the energy functional associated to the following nonlinear problem: −Δu=f(u) in Ω,u=0 on ρΩ. In this paper we consider the global compactness properties ofJ. We prove thatJ fails to satisfy the Palais-Smale condition at the energy levels {k/2},k any positive integer. More interestingly, we show thatJ fails to satisfy the Palais-Smale condition at these energy levels along two Palais-Smale sequences. These two sequences exhibit different blow-up behaviours. This is in sharp contrast to the situation in higher dimensions where there is essentially one Palais-Smale sequence for the corresponding energy functional.

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Volume 131, 2021
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