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

The Nehari manifold for a fractional Laplacian equation involving critical nonlinearities

Qingfang Wang ,

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

* Corresponding author

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<s<1 $
,
$ 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.
Keywords: Fractional elliptic equation, concave-convex nonlinearities, Nehari manifold.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J20, 35R11; Secondary: 35B33.
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
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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

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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

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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

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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

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W. Chen and S. Deng, The Nehari manifold for a fractional p-Laplacian system involving concave-convex nonlinearities, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 27 (2016), 80-92.  doi: 10.1016/j.nonrwa.2015.07.009.  Google Scholar

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K. Chen and H. Wang, A necessary and sufficient condition for Palais-Smale conditions, SIAMJ. Math. Anal., 31 (1999), 154-165.  doi: 10.1137/S0036141098338016.  Google Scholar

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E. Colorado, A. de Pablo and U. Sánchez, Perturbation of a critical fractional equations, Pacific J. Math., 271 (2014), 65-85.  doi: 10.2140/pjm.2014.271.65.  Google Scholar

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T. F. Wu, On semilinear elliptic equations involving concave-convex nonlinearities and sign-changing weight function, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 318 (2006), 253-270.  doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2005.05.057.  Google Scholar

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X. Zhu, A perturbation result on positive entire solutions of a semilinear elliptic equation, J. Differential Equations, 92 (331991), 163-178. doi: 10.1016/0022-0396(91)90045-B.  Google Scholar

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