Multiple positive solutions for Kirchhoff type problems involving concave-convex nonlinearities

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November 2017, 16(6): 2157-2175. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2017107

Multiple positive solutions for Kirchhoff type problems involving concave-convex nonlinearities

Jia-Feng Liao ^1,2, , Yang Pu ^2, , Xiao-Feng Ke ^1, and Chun-Lei Tang ^1,,

1.	School of Mathematics and Statistics, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
2.	School of Mathematics and Information, China West Normal University, Nanchong, Sichuan, 637002, China

^* Corresponding author

Received January 2017 Revised April 2017 Published July 2017

Fund Project: supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 11471267); Natural Science Foundation of Education of Guizhou Province(No. KY[2016]046); Research Foundation of China West Normal University(No. 16E014;No. 15D006)

In this paper, we are interested in looking for multiple solutions for a class of Kirchhoff type problems with concave-convex nonlinearities. Under the combined effect of coefficient functions of concave-convex nonlinearities, by the Nehari method, we obtain two solutions, and one of them is a ground state solution. Under some stronger conditions, we point that the two solutions are positive solutions by the strong maximum principle.

Keywords: Kirchhoff type problems, concave-convex nonlinearities, ground state solution, Nehari method.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J25; Secondary: 35B50.

Citation: Jia-Feng Liao, Yang Pu, Xiao-Feng Ke, Chun-Lei Tang. Multiple positive solutions for Kirchhoff type problems involving concave-convex nonlinearities. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2017, 16 (6) : 2157-2175. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2017107

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[14]	J. F. Liao, X. F. Ke, C. Y. Lei and C. L. Tang, A uniqueness result for Kirchhoff type problems with singularity, Appl. Math. Lett., 59 (2016), 24-30. doi: 10.1016/j.aml.2016.03.001. Google Scholar
[15]	Z. S. Liu and S. J. Guo, Existence and concentration of positive ground states for a Kirchhoff equation involving critical Sobolev exponent, Z. Angew. Math. Phys., 66 (2015), 747-769. doi: 10.1007/s00033-014-0431-8. Google Scholar
[16]	A. M. Mao and S. X. Luan, Sign-changing solutions of a class of nonlocal quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 383 (2011), 239-243. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2011.05.021. Google Scholar
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[21]	W. Rudin, Real and Complex Analysis McGraw-Hill, New York, London etc. 1966. Google Scholar
[22]	J. J. Sun and C. L. Tang, Existence and multipicity of solutions for Kirchhoff type equations, Nonlinear Anal., 74 (2011), 1212-1222. doi: 10.1016/j.na.2010.09.061. Google Scholar
[23]	X. H. Tang and B. T. Cheng, Ground state sign-changing solutions for Kirchhoff type problems in bounded domains, J. Differential Equations, 261 (2016), 2384-2402. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2016.04.032. Google Scholar
[24]	L. Wei and X. M. He, Multiplicity of high energy solutions for superlinear Kirchhoff equations, J. Appl. Math. Comput., 39 (2012), 473-487. doi: 10.1007/s12190-012-0536-1. Google Scholar
[25]	X. Wu, Existence of nontrivial solutions and high energy solutions for Schrodinger-Kirchhoff-type equations in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$, Nonlinear Anal. Real World Appl., 12 (2011), 1278-1287. doi: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2010.09.023. Google Scholar
[26]	M. Q. Xiang, B. L. Zhang and V. D. Rǎdulescu, Multiplicity of solutions for a class of quasilinear Kirchhoff system involving the fractional p-laplacian, Nonlinearity, 29 (2016), 3186-3205. doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/29/10/3186. Google Scholar
[27]	Q. L. Xie, S. W. Ma and X. Zhang, Bound state solutions of Kirchhoff type problems with critical exponent, J. Differential Equations, 261 (2016), 890-924. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2016.03.028. Google Scholar
[28]	Z. T. Zhang and K. Perera, Sign changing solutions of Kirchhoff type problems via invariant sets of descent flow, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 317 (2006), 456-463. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2005.06.102. Google Scholar

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