Sign-changing solutions to elliptic problems with two critical Sobolev-Hardy exponents

Yanfang Peng; Jing Yang

doi:10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.439

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2015, Volume 14, Issue 2: 439-455. Doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.439

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Sign-changing solutions to elliptic problems with two critical Sobolev-Hardy exponents

Yanfang Peng^1, and
Jing Yang^2,

1.
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, 550001
2.
Department of Mathematics, Huazhong Normal University,Wuhan, 430079

Received: November 30, 2013

Revised: August 31, 2014

Published: February 2015

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We study the following elliptic equation with two Sobolev-Hardy critical exponents \begin{eqnarray} & -\Delta u=\mu\frac{|u|^{2^{*}(s_1)-2}u}{|x|^{s_1}}+\frac{|u|^{2^{*}(s_2)-2}u}{|x|^{s_2}} \quad x\in \Omega, \\ & u=0, \quad x\in \partial\Omega, \end{eqnarray} where $\Omega\subset R^N (N\geq3)$ is a bounded smooth domain, $0\in\partial\Omega$, $0\leq s_2 < s_1 \leq 2$ and $2^*(s):=\frac{2(N-s)}{N-2}$. In this paper, by means of variational methods, we obtain the existence of sign-changing solutions if $H(0)<0$, where $H(0)$ denote the mean curvature of $\partial\Omega$ at $0$.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J20, 35J62; Secondary: 35Q55.

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