Semiclassical states for fractional Choquard equations with critical growth

Hui Zhang; Jun Wang; Fubao Zhang

doi:10.3934/cpaa.2019026

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2019, Volume 18, Issue 1: 519-538. Doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2019026

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Semiclassical states for fractional Choquard equations with critical growth

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Department of Mathematics, Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing 211169, China
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Department of Mathematics, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
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Department of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

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Received: June 30, 2017

Revised: September 30, 2017

Published: August 2018

The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11601204, 11671077, 11571140), Fellowship of Outstanding Young Scholars of Jiangsu Province (BK20160063), the Six big talent peaks project in Jiangsu Province (XYDXX-015), and Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20150478).

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In this paper, we are concerned with fractional Choquard equation

$ \ \ \ \epsilon^{2α}(-Δ)^α u+V(x)u\\ = \epsilon^{μ-3}\Bigl(\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}\frac{|u(y)|^{2_{μ,α}^*}+F(u(y))}{|x-y|^μ}dy\Bigr)\Bigl(|u|^{2_{μ,α}^*-2}u+\frac{1}{2_{μ,α}^*}f(u)\Bigr)\ {\rm in}\ \mathbb{R}^3,$

where $\epsilon>0$ is a parameter, $0<α<1$ , $0<μ<3$ , $2_{μ,α}^* = \frac{6-μ}{3-2α}$ is the critical exponent in the sense of Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality and fractional Laplace operator, $f$ is a continuous subcritical term, and $F$ is the primitive function of $f$ . By virtue of the method of Nehari manifold and Ljusternik-Schnirelmann category theory, we prove that the equation has a ground state for $\epsilon$ small enough and investigate the relation between the number of solutions and the topology of the set where $V$ attains its global minimum for small $\epsilon$ . We also obtain sufficient conditions for the nonexistence of ground states.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J20, 35B33; Secondary: 35R11.

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