Semilinear elliptic equations involving power nonlinearities and hardy potentials with boundary singularities

Abstract: Let $\Omega \subset\mathbb{R}^N$ ($N\geq 3$) be a $C^2$ bounded domain and $\Sigma \subset \partial\Omega$ be a $C^2$ compact submanifold without boundary, of dimension $k$, $0\leq k \leq N-1$. We assume that $\Sigma = {0}$ if $k = 0$ and $\Sigma=\partial\Omega$ if $k=N-1$. Denote $d_\Sigma(x)=\mathrm{dist}(x,\Sigma)$ and put $L_\mu=\Delta + \mu d_{\Sigma}^{-2}$ where $\mu$ is a parameter. In this paper, we study boundary value problems for equations $-L_\mu u \pm |u|^{p-1}u = 0$ in $\Omega$ with prescribed condition $u=\nu$ on $\partial \Omega$, where $p>1$ and $\nu$ is a given measure on $\partial \Omega$. The nonlinearity $|u|^{p-1}u$ is referred to as \textit{absorption} or \textit{source} depending whether the plus sign or minus sign appears. The distinctive feature of the problems is characterized by the interplay between the concentration of $\Sigma$, the type of nonlinearity, the exponent $p$ and the parameter $\mu$. The absorption case and the source case are sharply different in several aspects and hence require completely different approaches. In each case, we establish various necessary and sufficient conditions expressed in terms of appropriate capacities. In comparison with related works in the literature, by employing a fine analysis, we are able to treat the supercritical ranges for the exponent $p$, and the critical case for the parameter $\mu$, which justifies the novelty of our paper.