Boundary trace of positive solutions of supercritical semilinear elliptic equations in dihedral domains

Abstract

We study the generalized boundary value problem for (E)\; $-\Delta u+|u|^{q-1}u=0$ in a dihedral domain \Gw, when $q>1$ is supercritical. The value of the critical exponent can take only a finite number of values depending on the geometry of \Gw. When \gm is a bounded Borel measure in a k-wedge, we give necessary and sufficient conditions in order it be the boundary value of a solution of (E). We also give conditions which ensure that a boundary compact subset is removable. These conditions are expressed in terms of Bessel capacities $B_{s,q'}$ in \BBR^{N-k} where $s$ depends on the characteristics of the wedge. This allows us to describe the boundary trace of a positive solution of (E)Comment: To appear Ann. Sc.Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:0907.100