# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

November  2020, 19(11): 5059-5075. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020226

## Quasilinear nonlocal elliptic problems with variable singular exponent

 1 Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis, Aalto University, Espoo - 02150, Finland 2 Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Warangal, Warangal-506004, India

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Received  February 2020 Revised  April 2020 Published  July 2020

In this article, we provide existence results to the following nonlocal equation
 \begin{align*} \begin{cases} (-\Delta)_p^{s} u = g(x,u),\;u>0\; \text{in}\; \Omega,\\ u = 0 \; \text{in}\; \mathbb{R}^N\setminus \Omega, \end{cases} \end{align*}\quad\quad(P_ \lambda)
where
 $(-\Delta)_{p}^{s}$
is the fractional
 $p$
-Laplacian operator. Here
 $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^N$
is a smooth bounded domain,
 $s\in(0,1)$
,
 $p>1$
and
 $N>sp$
. We establish existence of at least one weak solution for
 $(P_ \lambda)$
when
 $g(x,u) = f(x)u^{-q(x)}$
and existence of at least two weak solutions when
 $g(x,u) = \lambda u^{-q(x)}+ u^{r}$
for a suitable range of
 $\lambda>0$
. Here
 $r\in(p-1,p_{s}^{*}-1)$
where
 $p_s^{*}$
is the critical Sobolev exponent and
 $0 . Citation: Prashanta Garain, Tuhina Mukherjee. Quasilinear nonlocal elliptic problems with variable singular exponent. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2020, 19 (11) : 5059-5075. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020226 ##### References:  [1] V. Ambrosio, Nontrivial solutions for a fractional$p$-Laplacian problem via Rabier theorem, Complex Var. Elliptic Equ., 62 (2017), 838-847. doi: 10.1080/17476933.2016.1245725. Google Scholar [2] V. Ambrosio and T. Isernia, Multiplicity and concentration results for some nonlinear Schrödinger equations with the fractional$p$-Laplacian, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 38 (2018), 5835-5881. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2018254. Google Scholar [3] D. Arcoya and L. Boccardo, Multiplicity of solutions for a Dirichlet problem with a singular and a supercritical nonlinearities, Differ. Integral Equ., 26 (2013), 119-128. Google Scholar [4] D. Arcoya and L. M. 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