# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

November  2011, 30(4): 1055-1081. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2011.30.1055

## On the location of a peak point of a least energy solution for Hénon equation

 1 Department of Mathematics & PMI, POSTECH, Pohang, Kyungbuk 790-784 2 Department of Mathematics Education, Gwangju National University of Education, 93 Pilmunlo Bugku, Gwangju 500-703 3 Department of Mathematics, POSTECH, Pohang, Kyungbuk 790-784

Received  May 2010 Revised  February 2011 Published  May 2011

Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain. We are concerned about the following nonlinear elliptic problem:

$\Delta u + |x|^{\alpha}u^{p} = 0, \ u > 0 \quad$ in $\Omega$,
$\ u = 0 \quad$ on $\partial \Omega$,

where $\alpha > 0, p \in (1,\frac{n+2}{n-2}).$ In this paper, we show that for $n \ge 8$, a maximum point $x_{\alpha }$ of a least energy solution of above problem converges to a point $x_0 \in \partial^$*$\Omega$ satisfying $H(x_0) = \min_$\w \in \partial ^* \Omega$H( w )$ as $\alpha \to \infty,$ where $H$ is the mean curvature on $\partial \Omega$ and $\partial ^$*$\Omega \equiv \{ x \in \partial \Omega : |x| \ge |y|$ for any $y \in \Omega \}.$
Citation: Jaeyoung Byeon, Sungwon Cho, Junsang Park. On the location of a peak point of a least energy solution for Hénon equation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2011, 30 (4) : 1055-1081. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2011.30.1055
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