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November 2019, 12(7): 1977-2003. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2019128

Multiple solutions for a critical quasilinear equation with Hardy potential

Fengshuang Gao ^1, and Yuxia Guo ^1,,

Department of Mathematical Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

* Corresponding author

Received December 2017 Revised April 2018 Published December 2018

Fund Project: The authors are supported by NSFC grant 11771235, 11331010, 11571040

In this paper, we investigate the following quasilinear equation involving a Hardy potential:

$\begin{array}{l}\left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}{ - \sum\limits_{i,j = 1}^N {{D_j}} ({a_{ij}}(u){D_i}u) + \frac{1}{2}\sum\limits_{i,j = 1}^N {{{a'}_{ij}}} (u){D_i}u{D_j}u - \frac{\mu }{{|x{|^2}}}u = au + |u{|^{{2^ * } - 2}}u}&{{\rm{in}}\;\Omega ,}\\\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;{u = 0}&{{\rm{on}}\;\partial \Omega ,}\end{array}} \right.\\\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\left( {\rm{P}} \right)\end{array}$

where

$ 2^ * = \frac{2N}{N-2} $

is the Sobolev critical exponent for the embedding of

$ H_0^1(\Omega) $

into

$ L^p(\Omega) $

$ a>0 $

is a constant and

$ \Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N $

is an open bounded domain which contains the origin. We will prove that under some suitable assumptions on

$ a_{ij} $

, when

$ N\geq 7 $

and

$ \mu\in[0,\mu^*) $

for some constant

$ \mu^* $

, problem (P) admits an unbounded sequence of solutions. To achieve this goal, we perform the subcritical approximation and the regularization perturbation.

Keywords: Quasilinear equations, critical exponents, Hardy potential, multiple bound state solutions.

Mathematics Subject Classification: 35B45, 35J25.

Citation: Fengshuang Gao, Yuxia Guo. Multiple solutions for a critical quasilinear equation with Hardy potential. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2019, 12 (7) : 1977-2003. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2019128

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[4]	H. Brezis and L. Nirenberg, Positive solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations involving critical Sobolev exponents, Commun. Pure Appl. Math., 36 (1983), 437-477. doi: 10.1002/cpa.3160360405. Google Scholar
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[6]	D. Cao, S. Peng and S. Yan, Multiplicity of solutions for the plasma problem in two dimensions, Adv. Math., 225 (2010), 2741-2785. doi: 10.1016/j.aim.2010.05.012. Google Scholar
[7]	D. Cao, S. Peng and S. Yan, Infinitely many solutions for $p-$Laplacian equation involving critical Sobolev growth, J. Funct. Anal., 262 (2012), 2861-2902. doi: 10.1016/j.jfa.2012.01.006. Google Scholar
[8]	D. Cao and S. Yan, Infinitely many solutions for an elliptic problem involving critical Sobolev growth and Hardy potential, Calc. Var. Part. Diff. Equ., 38 (2010), 471-501. doi: 10.1007/s00526-009-0295-5. Google Scholar
[9]	A. Capozzi, D. Fortunato and G. Palmieri, An existence result for nonlinear elliptic problems involving critical Sobolev exponents, Ann. Inst. H. Poincare and Non Lineaire, 2 (1985), 463-470. doi: 10.1016/S0294-1449(16)30395-X. Google Scholar
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[13]	A. de Bouard, N. Hayashi and J. C. Saut, Global existence of small solutions to a relativistic nonlinear Schrödinger equation, Comm. Math. Phys., 189 (1997), 73-105. doi: 10.1007/s002200050191. Google Scholar
[14]	Y. Deng, Y. Guo and J. Liu, Existence of solutions for quasilinear elliptic equations with Hardy potential, J. Math. Phys., 57 (2016), 031503, 15 pp. doi: 10.1063/1.4944455. Google Scholar
[15]	G. Divillanova and S. Solimini, Concentration estimates and multiple solutions to elliptic problems at critical growth, Adv. Differential Equations, 7 (2002), 1257-1280. Google Scholar
[16]	J. P. García Azorero and I. Peral Alonso, Hardy inequalities and some critical elliptic and parabolic problems, J. Differential Equations, 144 (1998), 441-476. doi: 10.1006/jdeq.1997.3375. Google Scholar
[17]	Y. Guo, J. Liu and Z. Wang, On a Brezis- Nirenburg type quasilinear problem, J. Fixed Point Theory Appl., 19 (2017), 719-753. doi: 10.1007/s11784-016-0371-3. Google Scholar
[18]	T. Kilpeläinen and J. Malý, The Winer test and potential estimates for quasilinear elliptic equations, Acta Math., 172 (1994), 137-161. doi: 10.1007/BF02392793. Google Scholar
[19]	A. M. Kosevich, B. A. Ivanov and A. S. Kovalev, Magnetic solitons in superfluid films, J. Phys. Soc. Japan., 50 (1981), 3262-3267. Google Scholar
[20]	L. Leblond and J. Marc, Electron capture by polar molecules, Phys. Rev., 153 (1967), 1-4. Google Scholar
[21]	J. Liu, X. Liu and Z.-Q. Wang, Multiple sign-changing solutions for quasilinear elliptic equations via perturbation method, Comm. PDE, 39 (2014), 2216-2239. doi: 10.1080/03605302.2014.942738. Google Scholar
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[25]	X. Liu, J. Liu and Z.-Q. Wang, Quasilinear elliptic equations via perturbation method, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 141 (2013), 253-263. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9939-2012-11293-6. Google Scholar
[26]	X. Liu, J. Liu and Z.-Q. Wang, Quasilinear elliptic equations with critical growth via perturbation method, J. Differential Equations., 254 (2013), 102-124. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2012.09.006. Google Scholar
[27]	X. Liu, J. Liu and Z. Wang, Quasilinear equations via elliptic regularization method, Adv. Non. Stu., 13 (2013), 517-531. doi: 10.1515/ans-2013-0215. Google Scholar
[28]	M. Maris, Profile decomposition for sequences of Borel measures, https://arXiv.org/abs/1410.6125.Google Scholar
[29]	M. Poppenberg, K. Schmitt and Z.-Q. Wang, On the existence of soliton solutions to quasilinear Schrödinger equations, Calc. Var. Part. Diff. Equ., 14 (2002), 329-344. doi: 10.1007/s005260100105. Google Scholar
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