# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

November  2018, 17(6): 2261-2281. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018108

## The Nehari manifold for a fractional Laplacian equation involving critical nonlinearities

 School of Mathematic and Computer Science, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, 430023, China

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Received  May 2017 Revised  December 2017 Published  June 2018

Fund Project: The first author is supported by NSF grant No.11701439.

We study the combined effect of concave and convex nonlinearities on the numbers of positive solutions for a fractional equation involving critical Sobolev exponents. In this paper, we concerned with the following fractional equation
 $\left\{ \begin{array}{l}{\left( { - \Delta } \right)^s}u = \lambda f\left( x \right){\left| u \right|^{q - 2}}u + g\left( x \right){\left| u \right|^{2_s^* - 2}}u,\;\;\;x \in \Omega ,\\u = 0,\;\;x \in \partial \Omega ,\end{array} \right.\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\left( 1 \right)$
where
 $0 , $ λ>0 $, $ 1≤q <2$, $ 2_s^* = \frac{2N}{N-2s} $, $ 0∈ Ω\subset \mathbb{R} ^N(N>4s) $is a bounded domain with smooth boundary $ \partialΩ $, and $ f,\,g $are nonnegative continuous functions on $\bar{Ω} $. Here $ (-Δ)^s $denotes the fractional Laplace operator. Citation: Qingfang Wang. The Nehari manifold for a fractional Laplacian equation involving critical nonlinearities. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2018, 17 (6) : 2261-2281. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018108 ##### References:  [1] S. Adachi and K. Tanaka, Four positive solutions for the semilinear elliptic equation :$ -Δ u+u = a(x)u^p+f(x) $in$ \mathbb{R} ^N $, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 11 (2000), 63-95. doi: 10.1007/s005260050003. Google Scholar [2] A. Ambrosetti, H. Brezis and G. Cerami, Combined effects of concave-convex nonlinearities in some elliptic problems, J. Funct. Anal., 122 (1994), 519-543. doi: 10.1006/jfan.1994.1078. Google Scholar [3] B. Barrios, E. Colorado, R. Servadei and F. 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Tanaka, Four positive solutions for the semilinear elliptic equation :$ -Δ u+u = a(x)u^p+f(x) $in$ \mathbb{R} ^N $, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 11 (2000), 63-95. doi: 10.1007/s005260050003. Google Scholar [2] A. Ambrosetti, H. Brezis and G. Cerami, Combined effects of concave-convex nonlinearities in some elliptic problems, J. Funct. Anal., 122 (1994), 519-543. doi: 10.1006/jfan.1994.1078. Google Scholar [3] B. Barrios, E. Colorado, R. Servadei and F. Soria, A critical fractional equation with concave-convex power nonlinearities, Ann. I. H. Poincaré-AN, 32 (2014), 875-900. doi: 10.1016/j.anihpc.2014.04.003. Google Scholar [4] B. Barrios, E. Colorado, A. de Pablo and U. Sánchez, On some critical problems for the fractional Laplacian, J. Differential Equations, 252 (2012), 6133-6162. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2012.02.023. Google Scholar [5] J. Bertoin, Lévy Processes, Camb. Tracts Math., 121, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996. Google Scholar [6] C. Brändle, E. Colorado and A. de Pablo, A concave-convex elliptic problem involving the fractional Laplacian, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A. Math., 142 (2013), 39-71. doi: 10.1017/S0308210511000175. Google Scholar [7] X. Cabre and J. Tan, Positive solutions of nonlinear problems invoving the square root of the Laplacian, Adv. Math., 224 (2010), 2052-2093. doi: 10.1016/j.aim.2010.01.025. Google Scholar [8] L. Caffarelli and L. Silvestre, An extension problem related to the fractional Laplacian, Comm. Partial Differential Equations, 32 (2007), 1245-1260. doi: 10.1080/03605300600987306. Google Scholar [9] D. Cao and H. Zhou, Multiple positive solutions of nonhomogeneous semilinear elliptic equations in$ \mathbb{R} ^N$, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A, 126 (1996), 443-463. doi: 10.1017/S0308210500022836. Google Scholar [10] A. Capella, J. Davila, L. Dupaigne and Y. Sire, Regularity of radial extremal solutions for some non-local semilinear equations, Comm. 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