Bubbling on Boundary Submanifolds for the Lin-Ni-Takagi Problem at Higher Critical Exponents

Abstract

We consider the equation $d^2\Delta u - u+ u^{\frac{n-k+2}{n-k-2}} =0\,\hbox{in}\Omega $, under zero Neumann boundary conditions, where $\Omega$ is open, smooth and bounded and $d$ is a small positive parameter. We assume that there is a $k$-dimensional closed, embedded minimal submanifold $K$ of $\partial\Omega$, which is non-degenerate, and certain weighted average of sectional curvatures of $\partial\Omega$ is positive along $K$. Then we prove the existence of a sequence $d=d_j\to 0$ and a positive solution $u_d$ such that $$ d^2 |\nabla u_{d} |^2 \rightharpoonup S, \delta_K \ass d \to 0 $$ in the sense of measures, where $\delta_K$ stands for the Dirac measure supported on $K$ and $S$ is a positive constant.