Concentrating solutions for a planar elliptic problem with large nonlinear exponent and Robin boundary condition
Abstract Let Ω ⊂ ℝ2 be a bounded domain with smooth boundary and b(x) > 0 a smooth function defined on ∂Ω. We study the following Robin boundary value problem: $$\begin{array}{} \displaystyle \left\{ \begin{alignedat}{2} &{\it\Delta} u+u^p=0 &\quad& \text{in }{\it\Omega},\\ &u>0 &\quad& \text{in }{\it\Omega},\\ &\frac{\partial u}{\partial\nu} +\lambda b(x)u=0 &\quad& \text{on } \partial{\it\Omega}, \end{alignedat} \right. \end{array}$$ where ν denotes the exterior unit vector normal to ∂Ω, 0 < λ < +∞ and p > 1 is a large exponent. We construct solutions of this problem which exhibit concentration as p → +∞ and simultaneously as λ → +∞ at points that get close to the boundary, and show that in general the set of solutions of this problem exhibits a richer structure than the problem with Dirichlet boundary condition.