Regularity of stable solutions to reaction-diffusion elliptic equations

The boundedness of stable solutions to semilinear (or reaction-diffusion) elliptic PDEs has been studied since the 1970s. In dimensions 10 and higher, there exist stable energy solutions which are unbounded (or singular). This note describes, for non-expert readers, a recent work in collaboration wi...

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Autor: Cabré Vilagut, Xavier|||0000-0001-5682-3135
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/399178
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/399178
https://dx.doi.org/10.4171/8ECM/13
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Differential equations, Partial
Semilinear elliptic equations
stable solutions
extremal solutions
regularity
a priori estimates
Equacions en derivades parcials
Classificació AMS::35 Partial differential equations
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Equacions diferencials i integrals
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Sumario:The boundedness of stable solutions to semilinear (or reaction-diffusion) elliptic PDEs has been studied since the 1970s. In dimensions 10 and higher, there exist stable energy solutions which are unbounded (or singular). This note describes, for non-expert readers, a recent work in collaboration with Figalli, Ros-Oton, and Serra, where we prove that stable solu- tions are smooth up to the optimal dimension 9. This solves an open problem posed by Brezis in the mid-nineties concerning the regularity of extremal solutions to Gelfand-type problems. We also describe, briefly, a famous analogue question in differential geometry: the regularity of stable minimal surfaces.