Stable solutions to reaction-diffusion elliptic problems
Fuente:
arXiv
Salvato in:
| Autore principale: | |
|---|---|
| Natura: | Preprint |
| Pubblicazione: |
2026
|
| Soggetti: | |
| Accesso online: | |
| Tags: |
Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
|
| _version_ | 1866912940454576128 |
|---|---|
| author | Cabre, Xavier |
| author_facet | Cabre, Xavier |
| contents | We are concerned with stable solutions to reaction-diffusion elliptic PDEs. We begin with regularity questions, first addressing the classical Laplacian. In joint work with Figalli, Ros-Oton, and Serra, we proved that stable solutions are smooth up to the optimal dimension 9, thereby solving an open problem posed by Brezis in the mid-1990s. We describe this result and also discuss related progress and open problems for the fractional Laplacian -- arising naturally in boundary reaction problems -- , the $p$-Laplacian, and minimal surfaces.
We then turn to existence questions, starting with the Casten-Holland and Matano theorem for interior reactions, which states that no nonconstant stable solution exists in convex domains under zero Neumann boundary conditions. We present a recent result with Consul and Kurzke (forthcoming) establishing that the analogous statement fails for boundary reactions. This requires the development of a new Ginzburg-Landau theory for real-valued functions and the analysis of the half-Laplacian on the real line, for which we present new results and open problems. |
| format | Preprint |
| id |
arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2603_03161 |
| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2026 |
| record_format | arxiv |
| spellingShingle | Stable solutions to reaction-diffusion elliptic problems Cabre, Xavier Analysis of PDEs We are concerned with stable solutions to reaction-diffusion elliptic PDEs. We begin with regularity questions, first addressing the classical Laplacian. In joint work with Figalli, Ros-Oton, and Serra, we proved that stable solutions are smooth up to the optimal dimension 9, thereby solving an open problem posed by Brezis in the mid-1990s. We describe this result and also discuss related progress and open problems for the fractional Laplacian -- arising naturally in boundary reaction problems -- , the $p$-Laplacian, and minimal surfaces. We then turn to existence questions, starting with the Casten-Holland and Matano theorem for interior reactions, which states that no nonconstant stable solution exists in convex domains under zero Neumann boundary conditions. We present a recent result with Consul and Kurzke (forthcoming) establishing that the analogous statement fails for boundary reactions. This requires the development of a new Ginzburg-Landau theory for real-valued functions and the analysis of the half-Laplacian on the real line, for which we present new results and open problems. |
| title | Stable solutions to reaction-diffusion elliptic problems |
| topic | Analysis of PDEs |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03161 |