The Nehari manifold for a fractional Laplacian equation involving critical nonlinearities

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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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[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. Partial Differential Equations, 36 (2011), 1353-1384. doi: 10.1080/03605302.2011.562954. Google Scholar
[11]	G. Carboni and D. Mugnai, On some fractional equations with convex-concave and logistic-type nonlinearities, J. Differential Equations, 262 (2017), 2393-2413. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2016.10.045. Google Scholar
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[14]	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
[15]	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
[16]	E. Di Nezza, G. Palatucci and E. Valdinoci, Hithiker's guide to the fractional Sobolev spaces, Bull. Sci. Math., 136 (2012), 521-573. doi: 10.1016/j.bulsci.2011.12.004. Google Scholar
[17]	X. He, M. Squassina and W. Zou, The Nehari manifold for fractional systems involvng critical nonlinearities, Communications on Pure Applied Analysis, 15 (2016), 1285-1308. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2016.15.1285. Google Scholar
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[19]	S. Li, S. Wu and H. Zhou, Solutions to semilinear elliptic problems with combined nonlinearities, J. Differential Equations, 185 (2002), 200-224. doi: 10.1006/jdeq.2001.4167. Google Scholar
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[21]	J. Serra and X. Ros-Oton, The Dirichlet problem for the fractional Laplacian: regularity up to the boundary, J. Math. Pures Appl., 101 (2014), 275-302. doi: 10.1016/j.matpur.2013.06.003. Google Scholar
[22]	R. Sevadei and E. Valdinoci, Mountain pass solutions for nonlinear elliptic operators, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 389 (2012), 887-898. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2011.12.032. Google Scholar
[23]	R. Sevadei and E. Valdinoci, Lewy-Stampacchia type estimates for variational inequalitis driven by (non)local operator, Rev. Mat. Iberoamericana, 29 (2013), 1091-1126. doi: 10.4171/RMI/750. Google Scholar
[24]	R. Sevadei and E. Valdinoci, The Br$ \acute{e} $zis-Nirenberg result for the fractional Laplacian, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 367 (2015), 67-102. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9947-2014-05884-4. Google Scholar
[25]	L. Silvestre, Regularity of the obstacle problem for a fractional power of the Laplace operator, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 60 (2007), 67-112. doi: 10.1002/cpa.20153. Google Scholar
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[28]	Y. Wei and X. Su, Multiplicity of solutions for the non-local elliptic equations driven by the fractional Laplacian, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 52 (2015), 95-124. doi: 10.1007/s00526-013-0706-5. Google Scholar
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[31]	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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