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On the fractional Lazer-McKenna conjecture with critical growth

Part of: Partial differential equations Elliptic equations and systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2021

Qi Li  and
Shuangjie Peng
Qi Li
Affiliation:
College of Science, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430065, People's Republic of China School of Mathematics and Statistics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, People's Republic of China ([email protected])
Shuangjie Peng
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics & Hubei Key Laboratory of Mathematical Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, People's Republic of China ([email protected])
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Abstract

This paper deals with the following fractional elliptic equation with critical exponent

\[ \begin{cases} \displaystyle (-\Delta )^{s}u=u_{+}^{2_{s}^{*}-1}+\lambda u-\bar{\nu}\varphi_{1}, & \text{in}\ \Omega,\\ \displaystyle u=0, & \text{in}\ {{\mathfrak R}}^{N}\backslash \Omega, \end{cases}\]
where $\lambda$, $\bar {\nu }\in {{\mathfrak R}}$, $s\in (0,1)$, $2^{*}_{s}=({2N}/{N-2s})\,(N>2s)$, $(-\Delta )^{s}$ is the fractional Laplace operator, $\Omega \subset {{\mathfrak R}}^{N}$ is a bounded domain with smooth boundary and $\varphi _{1}$ is the first positive eigenfunction of the fractional Laplace under the condition $u=0$ in ${{\mathfrak R}}^{N}\setminus \Omega$. Under suitable conditions on $\lambda$ and $\bar {\nu }$ and using a Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction method, we prove the fractional version of the Lazer-McKenna conjecture which says that the equation above has infinitely many solutions as $|\bar \nu | \to \infty$ .

Keywords

fractional Laplacefirst eigenfunctionLyapunov-Schmidt reduction

MSC classification

Primary: 35A01: Existence problems
Secondary: 35J60: Nonlinear elliptic equations
Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 152 , Issue 4 , August 2022 , pp. 879 - 911
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Society of Edinburgh

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