The critical dimension for a 4th order problem with singular nonlinearity

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2009-04-15

arxiv.org/abs/0904.2414v1

Mathematics

Analysis of PDEs

19 pages. This paper completes and replaces a paper (with a similar title) which appeared in arXiv:0810.5380. Updated versions

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We study the regularity of the extremal solution of the semilinear biharmonic equation $\bi u=\f{\lambda}{(1-u)^2}$, which models a simple Micro-Electromechanical System (MEMS) device on a ball $B\subset\IR^N$, under Dirichlet boundary conditions $u=\partial_\nu u=0$ on $\partial B$. We complete here the results of F.H. Lin and Y.S. Yang \cite{LY} regarding the identification of a "pull-in voltage" $\la^*>0$ such that a stable classical solution $u_\la$ with $0\la^*$. Our main result asserts that the extremal solution $u_{\lambda^*}$ is regular $(\sup_B u_{\lambda^*} <1)$ provided $ N \le 8$ while $u_{\lambda^*} $ is singular ($\sup_B u_{\lambda^*} =1$) for $N \ge 9$, in which case $1-C_0|x|^{4/3}\leq u_{\lambda^*} (x) \leq 1-|x|^{4/3}$ on the unit ball, where $ C_0:= (\frac{\lambda^*}{\overline{\lambda}})^{1/3}$ and $ \bar{\lambda}:= {8/9} (N-{2/3}) (N- {8/3})$.

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