Bifurcation diagrams of semilinear elliptic equations for supercritical nonlinearities in two dimensions

We consider the Gelfand problem with general supercritical nonlinearities in the two-dimensional unit ball. In this paper, we prove the non-existence of an unstable solution for any small parameter and the uniformly boundedness of finite Morse index solutions. As a result, we obtain the existence of a radial singular solution and prove that the bifurcation curve has infinitely many turning points. We remark that these properties are well-known in N dimensions with 3≤ N ≤ 9 and less known in two dimensions. The key idea of the proof is to utilize an interaction between a key gradient estimate of solutions and the supercriticality of the nonlinearities.