Multiple positive solutions for a class of Kirchhoff type problems involving general critical growth

TL;DR

This paper proves the existence of multiple positive solutions for a class of Kirchhoff problems with critical growth, analyzing parameter conditions and solution behavior as certain parameters tend to zero or vary.

Contribution

It establishes new existence and convergence results for Kirchhoff problems with critical growth, including multiple solutions and parameter-dependent properties.

Findings

Existence of at least two positive solutions for small λ

One solution is a positive ground state

Convergence of ground state as b approaches zero

Abstract

In this paper, we study the following nonlinear Kirchhoff problem involving critical growth: $$ \left\{% \begin{array}{ll} -(a+b\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^2dx)\Delta u=|u|^4u+\lambda|u|^{q-2}u, u=0\ \ \text{on}\ \ \partial\Omega, \end{array}% \right. $$ where $1<q<2$, $\lambda,\ a,\ b>0$ are parameters and $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\R^3$. We prove that there exists $\lambda_1=\lambda_1(q,\Omega)>0$ such that for any $\lambda\in(0,\lambda_1)$ and $a,\ b>0$, the above Kirchhoff problem possesses at least two positive solutions and one of them is a positive ground state solution. We also establish the convergence property of the ground state solution as the parameter $b\searrow 0$. More generally, we obtain the same results about the following Kirchhoff problem: $$ \left\{% \begin{array}{ll} -(a+b\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}|\nabla u|^2dx)\Delta u+u=Q(x)|u|^4u+{\lambda}f(x)|u|^{q-2}u, u\in H^1(\mathbb{R}^3), \end{array}% \right. $$ for any $a,\ b>0$ and $\lambda\in \big(0,\lambda_0(q,Q,f)\big)$ under certain conditions of $f(x)$ and $Q(x)$. Finally, we investigate the depending relationship between $\lambda_0$ and $b$ to show that for any (large) $\lambda>0$, there exists a $b_0(\lambda)>0$ such that the above results hold when $b>b_0(\lambda)$ and $a>0$.