Regularity of stable solutions to semilinear elliptic equations

Abstract

The regularity of stable solutions to semilinear elliptic PDEs has been studied since the 1970's. In dimensions 10 and higher, there exist singular stable energy solutions. In this talk I will describe a recent work with Figalli, Ros-Oton, and Serra, where we prove that stable solutions are smooth up to the optimal dimension 9. This answers to a famous open problem posed by Brezis in the mid-nineties concerning the regularity of extremal solutions to Gelfand-type problems.