$\Gamma $-convergence of concentration problems

Amar, Micol; Garroni, Adriana

Γ

-convergence of concentration problems

Amar, Micol ; Garroni, Adriana

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Série 5, Volume 2 (2003) no. 1, p. 151-179

Abstract

In this paper, we use

Γ

-convergence techniques to study the following variational problem

S_{ε}^{F} (Ω) : = sup \{ε^{- 2^{*}} \int_{Ω} F (u) d x : \int_{Ω} {| \nabla u |}^{2} d x \leq ε^{2}, u = 0 on \partial Ω\},

where

0 \leq F (t) \leq {| t |}^{2^{*}}

, with

2^{*} = \frac{2 n}{n - 2}

, and

Ω

is a bounded domain of

ℝ^{n}

n \geq 3

. We obtain a

Γ

-convergence result, on which one can easily read the usual concentration phenomena arising in critical growth problems. We extend the result to a non-homogeneous version of problem

S_{ε}^{F} (Ω)

. Finally, a second order expansion in

Γ

-convergence permits to identify the concentration points of the maximizing sequences, also in some non-homogeneous case.

MR 1990977 | Zbl 1121.35048 | 1 citation in Numdam

Classification: 35J60, 35C20, 49J45

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Amar, Micol; Garroni, Adriana. $\Gamma $-convergence of concentration problems. Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Série 5, Volume 2 (2003) no. 1, pp. 151-179. http://www.numdam.org/item/ASNSP_2003_5_2_1_151_0/

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