A singular Liouville equation on planar domains

Abstract

AbstractWe show the existence of a solution for an equation where the nonlinearity is logarithmically singular at the origin, namely, in with Dirichlet boundary condition. The function f has exponential growth, which can be subcritical or critical with respect to the Trudinger–Moser inequality. We study the energy functional corresponding to the perturbed equation , where is well defined at 0 and approximates . We show that has a critical point in , which converges to a legitimate nontrivial nonnegative solution of the original problem as . We also investigate the problem with replaced by , when the parameter is sufficiently large.