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January 2013, 33(1): 321-333. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.321

Infinitely many solutions for some singular elliptic problems

Andrzej Szulkin ^1, and Shoyeb Waliullah ^1,

1.	Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, Sweden

Received June 2011 Revised November 2011 Published September 2012

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We prove the existence of an unbounded sequence of critical points of the functional \begin{equation*} J_{\lambda}(u) =\frac{1} {p} ∫_{\mathbb{R} ^N}{||x|^{-α\nabla^k} u|} ^p - λ h(x){||x|^{-α+k}u|} ^p - \frac{1} {q} ∫_{\mathbb{R} ^N}Q(x){||x|^{-b}u|} ^q \end{equation*} related to the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality and its higher order variant by Lin. We assume $Q\le 0$ at 0 and infinity and consider two essentially different cases: $h\equiv 1$ and $h$ in a certain weighted Lebesgue space.

Keywords: infinitely many solutions., Nehari manifold, sign-changing weight function, Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J35, 35J62; Secondary: 35J30, 58E3.

Citation: Andrzej Szulkin, Shoyeb Waliullah. Infinitely many solutions for some singular elliptic problems. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2013, 33 (1) : 321-333. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.321

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[2]	T. Bartsch, Infinitely many solutions of a symmetric Dirichlet problem,, Nonlin. Anal., 20 (1993), 1205. doi: 10.1016/0362-546X(93)90151-H. Google Scholar
[3]	T. Bartsch, S. Peng and Z. Zhang, Existence and non-existence of solutions to elliptic equations related to the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities,, Calc. Var. PDE, 30 (2007), 113. doi: 10.1007/s00526-006-0086-1. Google Scholar
[4]	A. K. Ben-Naoum, C. Troestler and M. Willem, Extrema problems with critical Sobolev exponents on unbounded domains,, Nonlin. Anal., 26 (1996), 823. doi: 10.1016/0362-546X(94)00324-B. Google Scholar
[5]	G. Bianchi, J. Chabrowski and A. Szulkin, On symmetric solutions of an elliptic equation with a nonlinearity involving critical Sobolev exponent,, Nonlin. Anal., 25 (1995), 41. doi: 10.1016/0362-546X(94)E0070-W. Google Scholar
[6]	A. Bonnet, A deformation lemma on a $C^1$-manifold,, Manuscr. Math., 81 (1993), 339. doi: 10.1007/BF02567863. Google Scholar
[7]	H. Brézis and E. Lieb, A relation between pointwise convergence of functions and convergence of functionals,, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 88 (1983), 486. Google Scholar
[8]	K. J. Brown and Y. Zhang, The Nehari manifold for a semilinear elliptic equation with a sign-changing weight function,, J. Diff. Eq., 193 (2003), 481. doi: 10.1016/S0022-0396(03)00121-9. Google Scholar
[9]	L. Caffarelli, R. Kohn and L. Nirenberg, First order interpolation inequalities with weights,, Compositio Math., 53 (1984), 259. Google Scholar
[10]	F. Catrina and Z. Q. Wang, On the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities: sharp constants, existence (and nonexistence), and symmetry of extremal functions,, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 54 (2001), 229. doi: 10.1002/1097-0312(200102)54:2<229::AID-CPA4>3.0.CO;2-I. Google Scholar
[11]	F. Catrina and Z. Q. Wang, Positive bound states having prescribed symmetry for a class of nonlinear elliptic equations in R^N,, Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire, 18 (2001), 157. Google Scholar
[12]	J. Chabrowski and D. G. Costa, On existence of positive solutions for a class of Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg type equations,, Colloq. Math., 120 (2010), 43. doi: 10.4064/cm120-1-4. Google Scholar
[13]	K. S. Chou and C. W. Chu, On the best constant for a weighted Sobolev-Hardy inequality,, J. London Math. Soc. (2), 48 (1993), 137. doi: 10.1112/jlms/s2-48.1.137. Google Scholar
[14]	S. de Valeriola and M. Willem, On some quasilinear critical problems,, Adv. Nonlin. Stud., 9 (2009), 825. Google Scholar
[15]	G. Dinca, P. Jebelean and J. Mawhin, Variational and topological methods for Dirichlet problems with $p$-Laplacian,, Portug. Math., 58 (2001), 339. Google Scholar
[16]	J. Dolbeault, M. J. Esteban, M. Loss and G. Tarantello, On the symmetry of extremals for the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities,, Adv. Nonlin. Stud., 9 (2009), 713. Google Scholar
[17]	P. Drábek and S. I. Pohozaev, Positive solutions for the p-Laplacian: application of the fibering method,, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A, 127 (1997), 703. doi: 10.1017/S0308210500023787. Google Scholar
[18]	A. El Hamidi and J. M. Rakotoson, Compactness and quasilinear problems with critical exponents,, Diff. Int. Eq., 18 (2005), 1201. Google Scholar
[19]	C. S. Lin, Interpolation inequalities with weights,, Comm. Partial Diff. Eq., 11 (1986), 1515. doi: 10.1080/03605308608820473. Google Scholar
[20]	J. Lindenstrauss and L. Tzafriri, "Classical Banach Spaces. I,'', Springer-Verlag, (1977). Google Scholar
[21]	P. L. Lions, The concentration-compactness principle in the calculus of variations. The limit case. I,, Rev. Mat. Iberoamericana, 1:1 (1985), 145. doi: 10.4171/RMI/6. Google Scholar
[22]	P. L. Lions, The concentration-compactness principle in the calculus of variations. The limit case. II,, Rev. Mat. Iberoamericana, 1:2 (1985), 45. doi: 10.4171/RMI/12. Google Scholar
[23]	P. H. Rabinowitz, "Minimax Methods in Critical Point Theory with Applications to Differential Equations,'', CBMS Reg. Conf. Series Math., 65 (1986). Google Scholar
[24]	J. Simon, Régularité de la solution d'une équation non linéaire dans R^N，, Lecture Notes in Math., 665 (1978), 205. Google Scholar
[25]	C. A. Swanson, The best Sobolev constant,, Appl. Anal., 47 (1992), 227. doi: 10.1080/00036819208840142. Google Scholar
[26]	A. Szulkin, Ljusternik-Schnirelmann theory on c¹-manifolds,, Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire, 5 (1988), 119. Google Scholar
[27]	A. Szulkin and S. Waliullah, Sign-changing and symmetry-breaking solutions to singular problems,, Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations, (). Google Scholar
[28]	J. Tan and J. Yang, On the singular variational problems,, Acta Math. Sci. Ser. B Engl. Ed., 24 (2004), 672. Google Scholar
[29]	S. Waliullah, Minimizers and symmetric minimizers for problems with critical Sobolev exponent,, Topol. Meth. Nonlin. Anal., 34 (2009), 291. Google Scholar
[30]	S. Waliullah, Higher order singular problems of Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg-Lin type,, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 385 (2012), 721. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2011.07.005. Google Scholar
[31]	Z. Q. Wang and M. Willem, Singular minimization problems,, J. Diff. Eq., 161 (2000), 307. doi: 10.1006/jdeq.1999.3699. Google Scholar
[32]	M. Willem, "Minimax Theorems,'', Birkhäuser, (1996). Google Scholar

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