Fractional elliptic equations with Hardy potential and critical nonlinearities
Kexue Li

TL;DR
This paper studies fractional elliptic equations with Hardy potential and critical nonlinearities, establishing the existence of nonnegative solutions under certain conditions.
Contribution
It introduces new existence results for solutions to fractional elliptic equations involving Hardy potentials and critical nonlinearities.
Findings
Existence of nonnegative solutions under specific conditions.
Application of variational methods to fractional elliptic equations.
Extension of classical results to fractional and Hardy potential settings.
Abstract
In this paper, we consider the fractional elliptic equation \begin{align*} \left\{\begin{aligned} &(-\Delta)^s u-\mu\frac{u}{|x|^{2s}} = \frac{|u|^{2_s^\ast (\alpha)-2}u}{|x|^{\alpha}} + f(x,u), && \mbox{in} \ \Omega,\\ &u=0, && \mbox{in} \ \mathbb{R}^{n}\backslash \ \Omega, \end{aligned}\right. \end{align*} where is a smooth bounded domain, , , , . Under some assumptions on and , we obtain the existence of nonnegative solutions.
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TopicsNonlinear Partial Differential Equations · Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems · Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering
Fractional elliptic equations with Hardy potential and critical nonlinearities
Kexue Li
Kexue Li
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Abstract.
In this paper, we consider the fractional elliptic equation
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where is a smooth bounded domain, , , , . Under some assumptions on and , we obtain the existence of nonnegative solutions.
Key words and phrases:
Fractional elliptic equation; Critical Hardy-Sobolev exponent; Hardy potential
2010 Mathematics Subjects Classification: 35B33, 58E30
1. Introduction
In this paper, we are concerned with the following critical problem
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where is a smooth bounded domain, , , , , is the fractional critical Hardy-Sobolev exponent. The fractional Laplacian is defined by
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where is the principal value and is a constant that depends on and . If , is defined as , where is the Laplacian. In fact, for any , , see Proposition 4.4 in [4]. For , there are many results for problem (1.1), we refer to [2, 8, 3, 12].
Recently, the existence of nontrivial solutions for nonlinear fractional elliptic equations with Hardy potential
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have been studied by several authors. Barrios, Medina and Peral [1] studied (1.2) with and discussed the existence and multiplicity of solutions depending on the value of . Fall [5] studied (1.2) with and obtained the existence and nonexistence of nonnegative distributional solutions. Shakerian [10] studied the following problem
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where , , , . A sufficient condition is established for the existence of a positive solution for (1.3). Zhang and Hsu [11] investigated a system of fractional elliptic equation involving critical Sobolev-Hardy exponents and concave-convex nonlinearities, the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions was proved by variational methods. Motivated by the above papers, we will study the problem (1.1), here is the main result of this paper.
Theorem 1**.**
*Suppose that , , , , where is the unique solution of in ,
and there exist constants and such that for all , ,
There exists a constant big enough such that for all , ,
There exist constants , such that for all , ,
then problem (1.1) has at least a nonnegative solution.*
2. Preliminaries
Let be a smooth bounded domain in with 0 in its interior. For , we denote by the usual Lebesgue space with the norm . For , the fractional Sobolev space is defined as the closure of with respect to the norm
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where .
For , define another norm
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By the fractional Hardy inequality (see [6])
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we see that is well defined and for , is equalivalent to the norm .
In order to study positive solution for (1.1), we consider the existence of nontrivial solutions to the problem
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The energy functional whose critical points are weak solutions to problem (2.2) is given by
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where , ,
The best constant in fractional Hardy-Sobolev inequality in is
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Ghoussoub and Shakerian [7] proved the existence of extremals for , when and . Note that any minimizer for (2.3) is a variational solution of the following borderline problem
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by [7, 10], for , the problem (2.4) has positive radial symmetric solution , where is a solution of (2.4), , . Let , , choose small enough such that for , for . Set .
Lemma 1**.**
([11]).* Assume that , , , , . Then, as , we have the following estimates:*
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where is the unique solution of in .
3. Proof of Theorem 1.1
Lemma 2**.**
Suppose that , , hold. Let be a sequence such that and in , where . Then there exists such that , up to a subsequence, and is a nontrival solution of problem (1.1).
Proof.
We use the method of contradiction to show that is bounded. Suppose that as . Let , then . By , we get
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where . Up to a subsequence, we assume that in . By Corollary 7.2 in [4], is compact for . Then in , , and a.e. in . Thus, by (3), we get . On the other hand,
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since is big enough, this is a contradiction. Therefore is bounded in and there exists such that up to a subsequence. By the weak continuity of , we have . Assume that in , since is subcritical, from ,
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By the definition of ,
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If , this contradict . Then by (3.4),
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It follows from (3.2) and (3.5) that
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this contradicts . Therefore and is a nontrival solution of problem (1.1). ∎
Lemma 3**.**
Assume that , , and , hold. Then there exists , , such that
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Proof.
Since , then and . Set
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By (2.6),
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Let
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Note that , , for small enough, thus is attained for some . Since
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we have
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then
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By , we have
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Choosing small enough, by (3), (2.5) and (2.7), we have
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On the other hand, attains its maximum at and is increasing in . Since , by (2.5), (2.7), (3.7) and ,
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Since is big enough, we have
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∎
Proof of Theorem 1.1. From fractional Hardy-Sobolev inequality and fractional Sobolev inequality, it follows that
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By (3.8), ,
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Thus, there exists such that for all , where small enough. Since , for , we have
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then . We can choose such that and . By the Mountain Pass Lemma [9], there is a sequence satisfying
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where
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By Lemma 2 and Lemma 3, we get a sequence and such that . Then is a solution of (2.2) and , where . Therefore , we get a nonnegative solution of (1.1).
4. Acknowledgements
This work is partially supported by NSFC under the grant 11571269, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project under grants 2015M572539, 2016T90899.
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