Positive solutions to a nonlinear fractional equation with an external source term

Qi Li; Kefan Pan; Shuangjie Peng

doi:10.3934/dcds.2022068

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2022, Volume 42, Issue 10: 4669-4706. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2022068

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Positive solutions to a nonlinear fractional equation with an external source term

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College of Science & Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Systems Science in Metallurgical Process, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430065, China
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School of Mathematics and Statistics & Hubei Key Laboratory of Mathematical Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China

^*Corresponding author: Shuangjie Peng
^*Corresponding author: Shuangjie Peng

Received: June 2021

Revised: November 2021

Early access: May 2022

Published: October 2022

The first author is supported by NNSF of China (No. 12071169). The third author is supported by NNSF of China (No. 11831009)

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This paper deals with the following nonlinear fractional equation with an external source term

$ \begin{equation*} \label{eqS0.1} (-\Delta)^{s}u +u = K(x)u^{p}+f(x), \; u>0, \; x\in{\Bbb R}^N, \end{equation*} $

where $ N>2s $, $ 0<s<1 $, $ 1<p<2_{\ast}(s)-1 $, $ 2_{\ast}(s) = \frac{2N}{N-2s} $, $ K(x) $ is a continuous function and $ f\in L^{2}({\Bbb R}^{N})\cap L^{\infty}({\Bbb R}^{N}) $. Using a Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction scheme, we prove that the equation admits $ k $-peak solutions for any integer $ k>0 $ if $ f $ is small and $ K(x) $ satisfies some additional assumptions at infinity. The main difficulty is to improve the estimate of the remainder obtained in the reduction process.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35R11; Secondary: 35J20, 35J60.

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