Multiple boundary peak solutions for some singularly perturbed Neumann problems

Abstract

We consider the problem {ɛ2Δu-u+f(u)=0inΩ,u>0inΩ,∂u/∂v=0on∂Ω,where Ω is a bounded smooth domain in RN, ɛ > 0 is a small parameter and f is a superlinear, subcritical nonlinearity. It is known that this equation possesses boundary spike solutions such that the spike concentrates, as ε approaches zero, at a critical point of the mean curvature function H(P),P ∈ ∂ Ω. It is also known that this equation has multiple boundary spike solutions at multiple nondegenerate critical points of H(P) or multiple local maximum points of H(P).In this paper, we prove that for any fixed positive integer K there exist boundary K-peak solutions at a local minimum point of H(P). This implies that for any smooth and bounded domain there always exist boundary K-peak solutions.We first use the Liapunov–Schmidt method to reduce the problem to finite dimensions. Then we use a maximizing procedure to obtain multiple boundary spikes.