Regularity of the extremal solution in a MEMS model with advection

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2008-10-07

arxiv.org/abs/0810.1266v1

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Analysis of PDEs

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We consider the regularity of the extremal solution of the nonlinear eigenvalue problem (S)_\lambda \qquad {rcr} -\Delta u + c(x) \cdot \nabla u &=& \frac{\lambda}{(1-u)^2} \qquad {in $ \Omega$}, u &=& 0 \qquad {on $ \pOm$}, where $ \Omega $ is a smooth bounded domain in $ \IR^N$ and $ c(x)$ is a smooth bounded vector field on $\bar \Omega$. We show that, just like in the advection-free model ($c\equiv 0$), all semi-stable solutions are smooth if (and only if) the dimension $N\leq 7$. The novelty here comes from the lack of a suitable variational characterization for the semi-stability assumption. We overcome this difficulty by using a general version of Hardy's inequality. In a forthcoming paper \cite{CG2}, we indicate how this method applies to many other nonlinear eigenvalue problems involving advection (including the Gelfand problem), showing that they all essentially have the same critical dimension as their advection-free counterparts.

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