Bubbling along boundary geodesics near the second critical exponent
The role of the second critical exponent , the Sobolev critical exponent in one dimension less, is investigated for the classical Lane–Emden–Fowler problem , under zero Dirichlet boundary conditions, in a domain in with bounded, smooth boundary. Given , a geodesic of the boundary with negative inner normal curvature we find that for , there exists a solution such that converges weakly to a Dirac measure on as , provided that is nondegenerate in the sense of second variations of...