Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

D. Gregorin Afonso - A. Iacopetti - F. Pacella

Energy stability for a class of semilinear elliptic problems

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Inserted: 6 mar 2024
Last Updated: 6 mar 2024

Journal: Journal of Geometric Analysis
Year: 2024
Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-023-01525-1

ArXiv: 2307.07345 PDF

Abstract:

In this paper, we consider semilinear elliptic problems in a bounded domain $\Omega$ contained in a given unbounded Lipschitz domain $\mathcal C \subset \mathbb R^N$. Our aim is to study how the energy of a solution behaves with respect to volume-preserving variations of the domain $\Omega$ inside $\mathcal C$. Once a rigorous variational approach to this question is set, we focus on the cases when $\mathcal C$ is a cone or a cylinder and we consider spherical sectors and radial solutions or bounded cylinders and special one-dimensional solutions, respectively. In these cases, we show both stability and instability results, which have connections with related overdetermined problems.