Boundary concentration phenomena for a singularly perturbed elliptic problem

We exhibit new concentration phenomena for the equation ? ε² Δu + u = u^p in a smooth bounded domain Ω ? ?² and with Neumann boundary conditions. The exponent p is greater than or equal to 2 and the parameter ε is converging to 0. For a suitable sequence ε_n → 0 we prove the existence of positive solutions u_n concentrating at the whole boundary of Ω or at some component. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.