The critical dimension for a fourth order elliptic problem with singular nonlinearity

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2008-10-29

arxiv.org/abs/0810.5380v1

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Analysis of PDEs

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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 $N \ge 17$, 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^*}{\bar{\lambda}}>)^{1/3}$ and $ \bar{\lambda}:= \frac{8 (N-{2/3}) (N- {8/3})}{9}$. The singular character of the extremal solution for the remaining cases (i.e., when $9\leq N\leq 16$) requires a computer assisted proof and will not be addressed in this paper.

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