A Supercritical Problem in Dimension Two

Abstract

Let $\Omega \subset {\mathbb{R}}^2$ be a smooth bounded domain containing the origin and invariant under reflection across the coordinate axes, and let $0<\lambda <{\lambda }_1(\Omega )$, where ${\Lambda }_1(\Omega )$ is the first eigenvalue for $-\Delta$ on $\Omega$ under Dirichlet boundary conditions. For every fixed integer $k\ge 1$ and all sufficiently small $\epsilon >0$, we construct a positive solution of \[ -Δu=λu e^{u^{2+\varepsilon}} \quad\hbox{in }Ω, \qquad u=0\quad\hbox{on }\partialΩ, \] which blows up at the origin as a tower of $k$ Liouville bubbles. The concentration scales are strongly separated. The proof is based on a Lyapunov--Schmidt reduction adapted to these different scales.