# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

December  2019, 39(12): 7249-7264. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019302

## A new proof of the boundedness results for stable solutions to semilinear elliptic equations

 1 ICREA, Pg. Lluis Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain 2 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Departament de Matemàtiques, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain 3 BGSMath, Campus de Bellaterra, Edifici C, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain

Dedicated to Luis Caffarelli, with friendship and great admiration

Received  February 2019 Revised  May 2019 Published  September 2019

Fund Project: Xavier Cabré is supported by grants MTM2017-84214-C2-1-P and MdM-2014-0445 (Government of Spain), and is a member of the research group 2017SGR1392 (Government of Catalonia).

We consider the class of stable solutions to semilinear equations $-\Delta u = f(u)$ in a bounded smooth domain of $\mathbb{R}^n$. Since 2010 an interior a priori $L^\infty$ bound for stable solutions is known to hold in dimensions $n\le 4$ for all $C^1$ nonlinearities $f$. In the radial case, the same is true for $n\leq 9$. Here we provide with a new, simpler, and unified proof of these results. It establishes, in addition, some new estimates in higher dimensions —for instance $L^p$ bounds for every finite $p$ in dimension 5.

Since the mid nineties, the existence of an $L^\infty$ bound holding for all $C^1$ nonlinearities when $5\leq n\leq 9$ was a challenging open problem. This has been recently solved by A. Figalli, X. Ros-Oton, J. Serra, and the author, for nonnegative nonlinearities, in a forthcoming paper.

Citation: Xavier Cabré. A new proof of the boundedness results for stable solutions to semilinear elliptic equations. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2019, 39 (12) : 7249-7264. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019302
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