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Large number of bubble solutions for a fractional elliptic equation with almost critical exponents

Part of: Elliptic equations and systems Miscellaneous topics - Partial differential equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2020

Chunhua Wang  and
Suting Wei
Chunhua Wang
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics & Hubei Key Laboratory of Mathematical Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, People's Republic of China (chunhuawang@mail.ccnu.edu.cn)
Suting Wei*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510642, People's Republic of China (stwei@scau.edu.cn)
*
*Corresponding author.
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Abstract

This paper deals with the following non-linear equation with a fractional Laplacian operator and almost critical exponents:

\[ (-\Delta)^{s} u=K(|y'|,y'')u^{({N+2s})/(N-2s)\pm\epsilon},\quad u > 0,\quad u\in D^{1,s}(\mathbb{R}^{N}), \]
where N ⩾ 4, 0 < s < 1, (y′, y″) ∈ ℝ2 × ℝN−2, ε > 0 is a small parameter and K(y) is non-negative and bounded. Under some suitable assumptions of the potential function K(r, y″), we will use the finite-dimensional reduction method and some local Pohozaev identities to prove that the above problem has a large number of bubble solutions. The concentration points of the bubble solutions include a saddle point of K(y). Moreover, the functional energies of these solutions are in the order $\epsilon ^{-(({N-2s-2})/({(N-2s)^2})}$.

Keywords

The fractional Laplacian operatorbubble solutionsfinite-dimensional reduction methodalmost critical exponentslocal Pohozaev identities

MSC classification

Primary: 35R11: Fractional partial differential equations
Secondary: 35J60: Nonlinear elliptic equations
Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 151 , Issue 5 , October 2021 , pp. 1642 - 1681
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