On the blow-up analysis at collapsing poles for solutions of singular Liouville type equations

Abstract: We analyse a blow-up sequence of solutions for Liouville type equations involving Dirac measures with "collapsing" poles. We consider the case where blow-up occurs exactly at a point where the poles coalesce. After proving that a "quantization" property still holds for the "blow-up mass", we obtain precise point-wise estimates when blow-up occurs with the least blow-up mass. Interestingly, such estimates express the exact analogue of those obtained for "bubble" solutions of "regular" Liouville equations, when the "collapsing" Dirac measures are neglected. Such information will be used to describe the asymptotic behaviour of minimizers of the Donaldson functional introduced by Goncalves and Uhlenbeck (2007), yielding to mean curvature 1-immersions of surfaces into hyperbolic 3-manifolds.