Boundary separated and clustered layer positive solutions for an elliptic Neumann problem with large exponent

Abstract

Given a smooth bounded domain [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text], we study the existence and the profile of positive solutions for the following elliptic Neumann problem: [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] is a large exponent and [Formula: see text] denotes the outer unit normal vector to the boundary [Formula: see text]. For suitable domains [Formula: see text], by a constructive way we prove that, for any non-negative integers [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text], if [Formula: see text] is large enough, such a problem has a family of positive solutions with [Formula: see text] boundary layers and [Formula: see text] interior layers which concentrate along [Formula: see text] distinct [Formula: see text]-dimensional minimal submanifolds of [Formula: see text], or collapse to the same [Formula: see text]-dimensional minimal submanifold of [Formula: see text] as [Formula: see text].