Lack of interior $L^q$ bounds for stable solutions to elliptic equations

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Main Author: Villegas, Salvador
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contents We consider stable solutions of semilinear elliptic equations of the form $-Δu=f(u)$ in a bounded domain $Ω\subset\mathbb{R}^N$. In a well-known paper \cite{cfrs}, Cabré, Figalli, Ros-Oton and Serra obtained interior estimates for the $W^{1,2}$-norm of $u$ in terms of the $L^1$-norm of $u$ and proved interior Hölder regularity for dimensions $N\leq 9$. All these results rely on the assumption that $f$ is nonnegative. We show that, for general nonlinearities $f\in C^\infty(\mathbb{R})$, it is impossible, in any dimension $N\geq 1$, to obtain an interior $L^q$ estimate in terms of the $L^p$-norm of $u$ whenever $1\leq p<q\leq \infty$.
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spellingShingle Lack of interior $L^q$ bounds for stable solutions to elliptic equations
Villegas, Salvador
Analysis of PDEs
25J15, 35J61, 35B45
We consider stable solutions of semilinear elliptic equations of the form $-Δu=f(u)$ in a bounded domain $Ω\subset\mathbb{R}^N$. In a well-known paper \cite{cfrs}, Cabré, Figalli, Ros-Oton and Serra obtained interior estimates for the $W^{1,2}$-norm of $u$ in terms of the $L^1$-norm of $u$ and proved interior Hölder regularity for dimensions $N\leq 9$. All these results rely on the assumption that $f$ is nonnegative. We show that, for general nonlinearities $f\in C^\infty(\mathbb{R})$, it is impossible, in any dimension $N\geq 1$, to obtain an interior $L^q$ estimate in terms of the $L^p$-norm of $u$ whenever $1\leq p<q\leq \infty$.
title Lack of interior $L^q$ bounds for stable solutions to elliptic equations
topic Analysis of PDEs
25J15, 35J61, 35B45
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20427