In this paper we fully characterize the sequentially weakly lower semicontinuity of the parameter-depending energy functional associated with the critical Kirchhoff problem. We also establish sufficient criteria with respect to the parameters for the convexity and validity of the Palais-Smale condition of the same energy functional. We then apply these regularity properties in the study of some elliptic problems involving the critical Kirchhoff term.
In the present paper, we study a Kirchhoff type problem involving the critical Sobolev exponent. We give sufficient conditions for the sequentially weakly lower semicontinuity and the Palais Smale property of the energy functional associated to the problem.
In this paper, we prove uniqueness and nondegeneracy of positive solutions to the following Kirchhoff equations with critical growth \begin{eqnarray*} -\left(a+b\int_{\mathbb{R}^{3}}|\nabla u|^{2}\right)Δu=u^{5}, & u>0 & \text{in }\mathbb{R}^{3},\end{eqnarray*} where $a,b>0$ are positive constants. This result has potential applications in singular perturbation problems concerning Kirchhoff equaitons.
We study a nonlocal elliptic equation of $p$-Kirchhoff type involving the critical Sobolev exponent. First we give sufficient conditions for the (PS) condition to hold. Then we prove some existence and multiplicity results using tools from Morse theory, in particular, the notion of a cohomological local splitting and eigenvalues based on the Fadell-Rabinowitz cohomological index.
We study a class of critical Kirchhoff problems with a general nonlocal term. The main difficulty here is the absence of a closed-form formula for the compactness threshold. First we obtain a variational characterization of this threshold level. Then we prove a series of existence and multiplicity results based on this variational characterization.
We establish a concentration-compactness principle for the Sobolev space $W^{2,p(\cdot)}(Ω)\cap W_0^{1,p(\cdot)}(Ω)$ that is a tool for overcoming the lack of compactness of the critical Sobolev imbedding. Using this result we obtain several existence and multiplicity results for a class of Kirchhoff type problems involving $p(\cdot)$-biharmonic operator and critical growth.
We consider a class of fourth-order elliptic equations of Kirchhoff type with critical growth in $\mathbb{R}^N$. By using constrained minimization in the Nehari manifold, we establish sufficient conditions for the existence of nodal (that is, sign-changing) solutions.
In this paper, we study the existence of three solutions for a Kirchhoff equation involving the nonlocal fractional p-Laplacian considering Sobolev and Hardy nonlinearities at subcritical and critical growths. The proof is based on Mountain Pass Theorem, Ekeland's variational principle and constrained minimization in Nehari sets.
We study a nonlocal parametric problem driven by the fractional Laplacian operator combined with a Kirchhoff-type coefficient and involving a critical nonlinearity term in the sense of Sobolev embeddings. Our approach is of variational and topological nature. The obtained results can be viewed as a nontrivial extension to the nonlocal setting of some recent contributions already present in the literature.
In this paper we prove the existence of positive ground state solution for a class of linearly coupled systems involving Kirchhoff-Schrödinger equations. We study the subcritical and critical case. Our approach is variational and based on minimization technique over the Nehari manifold. We also obtain a nonexistence result using a Pohozaev identity type.
We study the existence of ground states to a nonlinear fractional Kirchhoff equation with an external potential $V$. Under suitable assumptions on $V$, using the monotonicity trick and the profile decomposition, we prove the existence of ground states. In particular, the nonlinearity does not satisfy the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz type condition or monotonicity assumptions.
In this paper we establish the existence of mountain pass and negative energy weak solutions for a Kirchhoff-Schrödinger type problem in $\mathbb R^4$ involving a critical nonlinearity and a suitable small perturbation. The arisen competition between the terms due to the nonlocal coefficient and critical nonlinearity turns out to be rather interesting. The main tools used in the present work are variational methods and the Lions' Concentration Compactness Principle.
In this paper, we consider the following critical fractional Kirchhoff equation \begin{equation*} \Big(a+b{\int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}}|(-Δ)^{\frac{s}{2}}u|^2dx\Big)(-Δ)^su=|u|^{2^*_s-2}u,\quad \text{in}\ \mathbb{R}^{N}, \end{equation*} where $a,b>0$, $\frac{N}{4}<s<1$, $2^*_s=\frac{2N}{N-2s}$ and $(-Δ)^s$ is the fractional Laplacian. We prove the uniqueness and nondegeneracy of positive solutions to the problem, which can be used to study the singular perturbation problems concerning fractional Kirchhoff equations.
In this paper, we study the fractional Kirchhoff equation with critical nonlinearity \begin{align*} \left(a+b\int_{\mathbb R^N}|(-Δ)^{\frac{s}{2}}u|^2dx\right)(-Δ)^su+u=f(u)\ \ \mbox{in}\ \ \mathbb R^N, \end{align*} where $N>2s$ and $(-Δ)^s$ is the fractional Laplacian with $0<s<1$. By using a perturbation approach, we prove the existence of solutions to the above problem without the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition when the parameter $b$ small. What's more, we obtain the asymptotic behavior of solutions as $b\to 0$.
In this paper we consider the following critical nonlocal problem $$ \left\{\begin{array}{ll} M\left(\displaystyle\iint_{\mathbb{R}^{2N}}\frac{|u(x)-u(y)|^2}{|x-y|^{N+2s}}dxdy\right)(-Δ)^s u = \displaystyle\fracλ{u^γ}+u^{2^*_s-1}&\quad\mbox{in } Ω,\\ u>0&\quad\mbox{in } Ω,\\ u=0&\quad\mbox{in } \mathbb{R}^N\setminusΩ, \end{array}\right. $$ where $Ω$ is an open bounded subset of $\mathbb R^N$ with continuous boundary, dimension $N>2s$ with parameter $s\in (0,1)$, $2^*_s=2N/(N-2s)$ is the fractional critical Sobolev exponent, $λ>0$ is a real parameter, exponent $γ\in(0,1)$, $M$ models a Kirchhof…
We are concerned with the following Kirchhoff type equation $$-\varepsilon^2 M \left(\varepsilon^{2-N} \int_{\mathbb{R}^N} | \nabla u|^2\, \mathrm{d} x\right) Δu+V(x)u = f(u),\ x \in \mathbb{R}^N,\ \ N\ge2, $$ where $M \in C(\mathbb{R}^+,\mathbb{R}^+)$, $V\in C(\mathbb{R}^N,\mathbb{R}^+)$ and $f(s)$ is of critical growth. In this paper, we construct a localized bound state solution concentrating at a local minimum of $V$ as $\varepsilon\to 0$ under certain conditions on $f(s)$, $M$ and $V$. In particular, the monotonicity of $f(s)/s$ and the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition are not required.
In the present note we prove a multiplicity result for a Kirchhoff type problem involving a critical term, giving a partial positive answer to a problem raised by Ricceri.
For a class of Kirchhoff functional, we first give a complete classification with respect to the exponent $p$ for its $L^2$-normalized critical points, and show that the minimizer of the functional, if exists, is unique up to translations. Secondly, we search for the mountain pass type critical point for the functional on the $L^2$-normalized manifold, and also prove that this type critical point is unique up to translations. Our proof relies only on some simple energy estimates and avoids using the concentration-compactness principles. These conclusions extend some known results in previous p…
In this paper, we consider the following singularly perturbed Kirchhoff equation \begin{equation*} -(\varepsilon^2a+\varepsilon b\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}|\nabla u|^2dx)Δu+V(x)u=P(x)|u|^{p-2}u+Q(x)|u|^4u,\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^3, \end{equation*} where $\varepsilon>0$ is a small parameter, $a, b > 0$ are constants, $p\in(4,6)$ and $V, P, Q$ are potential functions satisfying some competing conditions. We prove the existence of a positive ground state solution by using variational methods, and we determine a concrete set related to the potentials $V,P$ and $Q$ as the concentration position of these grou…
In this paper, we study the multiplicity and concentration of the positive solutions to the following critical Kirchhoff type problem: \begin{equation*} -\left(\varepsilon^2 a+\varepsilon b\int_{\R^3}|\nabla u|^2\mathrm{d} x\right)Δu + V(x) u = f(u)+u^5\ \ {\rm in } \ \ \R^3, \end{equation*} where $\varepsilon$ is a small positive parameter, $a$, $b$ are positive constants, $V \in C(\mathbb{R}^3)$ is a positive potential, $f \in C^1(\R^+, \R)$ is a subcritical nonlinear term, $u^5$ is a pure critical nonlinearity. When $\varepsilon>0$ small, we establish the relationship between the number of …
In this paper, we consider the multiplicity of solutions for a class of Kirchhoff type problems with sub-linear and critical terms on an unbounded domain. With the aid of Ekeland's variational principle and the concentration compactness principle we prove that the Kirchhoff problem has at least two solutions.
We study the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions for a family of fractional Kirchhoff equations with critical nonlinearity of the form \begin{equation*} M\left(\int_Ω|(-Δ)^{\fracα{2}}u|^2dx\right)(-Δ)^α u= λf(x)|u|^{q-2}u+|u|^{2^*_α-2}u\;\; \text{in}\; Ω,\;u=0\;\textrm{in}\;\mathbb R^n\setminus Ω, \end{equation*} where $Ω\subset \mathbb R^n$ is a smooth bounded domain, $ M(t)=a+\varepsilon t, \; a, \; \varepsilon>0,\; 0<α<1, \; 2α<n<4α$ and $ \; 1<q<2$. Here $2^*_α={2n}/{(n-2α)}$ is the fractional critical Sobolev exponent, $λ$ is a positive parameter and the coefficient $f(x)$ is…
We consider the following Kirchhoff - Choquard equation \[ -M(\|\na u\|_{L^2}^{2})\De u = \la f(x)|u|^{q-2}u+ \left(\int_{\Om}\frac{|u(y)|^{2^*_μ}}{|x-y|^μ}dy\right)|u|^{2^*_μ-2}u \; \text{in}\; \Om,\quad u = 0 \; \text{ on } \pa \Om , \] where $\Om$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^N( N\geq 3)$ with $C^2$ boundary, $2^*_μ=\frac{2N-μ}{N-2}$, $1<q\leq 2$, and $f$ is a continuous real valued sign changing function. When $1<q< 2$, using the method of Nehari manifold and Concentration-compactness Lemma, we prove the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions of the above problem. We also p…
In present paper, we study the normalized solutions $(λ_c, u_c)\in \R\times H^1(\R^N)$ to the following Kirchhoff problem $$ -\left(a+b\int_{\R^N}|\nabla u|^2dx\right)Δu+λu=g(u)~\hbox{in}~\R^N,\;1\leq N\leq 3 $$ satisfying the normalization constraint $ \displaystyle\int_{\R^N}u^2=c, $ which appears in free vibrations of elastic strings. The parameters $a,b>0$ are prescribed as is the mass $c>0$. The nonlinearities $g(s)$ considered here are very general and of mass super-critical. Under some suitable assumptions, we can prove the existence of ground state normalized solutions for any given $c…
In this paper, we consider the following Kirchhoff problem $$ \left\{\aligned -\bigg(a+b\int_Ω|\nabla u|^2dx\bigg)Δu&= λu^{q-1} + μu^{2^*-1}, &\quad \text{in }Ω, \\ u&>0,&\quad\text{in }Ω,\\ u&=0,&\quad\text{on }\partialΩ, \endaligned \right.\eqno{(\mathcal{P})} $$ where $Ω\subset \bbr^N(N\geq4)$ is a bounded domain, $2\leq q<2^*$, $2^*=\frac{2N}{N-2}$ is the critical Sobolev exponent and $a$, $b$, $λ$, $μ$ are positive parameters. By using the variational method, we obtain some existence and nonexistence results to $(\mathcal{P})$ for all $N\geq4$ with some further conditions on the parameter…
In this paper we consider the following class of fractional Kirchhoff equations with critical growth: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \left(\varepsilon^{2s}a+\varepsilon^{4s-3}b\int_{\mathbb{R}^{3}}|(-Δ)^{\frac{s}{2}}u|^{2}dx\right)(-Δ)^{s}u+V(x)u=f(u)+|u|^{2^{*}_{s}-2}u \quad &\mbox{ in } \mathbb{R}^{3}, \\ u\in H^{s}(\mathbb{R}^{3}), \quad u>0 &\mbox{ in } \mathbb{R}^{3}, \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} where $\varepsilon>0$ is a small parameter, $a, b>0$ are constants, $s\in (\frac{3}{4}, 1)$, $2^{*}_{s}=\frac{6}{3-2s}$ is the fractional critical exponent, $(-Δ)^{s}$ is the …
This paper deals with the following degenerate fractional Kirchhoff-type system with magnetic fields and critical growth: $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{lll} -\mathfrak{M}(\|u\|_{s,A}^2)[(-Δ)^s_Au+u] = G_u(|x|,|u|^2,|v|^2) + \left(\mathcal{I}_μ*|u|^{p^*}\right)|u|^{p^*-2}u \ &\mbox{in}\,\,\mathbb{R}^N,\\ \mathfrak{M}(\|v\|_{s,A})[(-Δ)^s_Av+v] = G_v(|x|,|u|^2,|v|^2) + \left(\mathcal{I}_μ*|v|^{p^*}\right)|v|^{p^*-2}v \ &\mbox{in}\,\,\mathbb{R}^N, \end{array}\right. $$ where $$\|u\|_{s,A}=\left(\iint_{\mathbb{R}^{2N}}\frac{|u(x)-e^{i(x-y)\cdot A(\frac{x+y}{2})}u(y)|^2}{|x-y|^{N+2s}}dx dy+\int_{\mathbb{…
In this paper, we study the following nonlinear Kirchhoff problem involving critical growth: $$ \left\{% \begin{array}{ll} -(a+b\int_Ω|\nabla u|^2dx)Δu=|u|^4u+λ|u|^{q-2}u, u=0\ \ \text{on}\ \ \partialΩ, \end{array}% \right. $$ where $1<q<2$, $λ,\ a,\ b>0$ are parameters and $Ω$ is a bounded domain in $\R^3$. We prove that there exists $λ_1=λ_1(q,Ω)>0$ such that for any $λ\in(0,λ_1)$ and $a,\ b>0$, the above Kirchhoff problem possesses at least two positive solutions and one of them is a positive ground state solution. We also establish the convergence property of the ground state solution as t…
This article is concerned with the existence and multiplicity of positive weak solutions for the following fractional Kirchhoff-Choquard problem: \begin{equation*} \begin{array}{cc} \displaystyle M\left( \|u\|^2\right) (-Δ)^s u = \dsλf(x)|u|^{q-2}u + \left( \int\limits_Ω \frac{|u(y)|^{2^{*}_{μ,s}}}{|x-y|^ μ}\, dy\right) |u|^{2^{*}_{μ,s}-2}u \;\text{in} \; Ω, u > 0\quad \text{in} \; Ω, \,\, u = 0\quad \text{in} \; \mathbb{R}^{N}\backslashΩ, \end{array} \end{equation*} where $Ω$ is open bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ with $C^2$ boundary, $N > 2s$ and $s \in (0,1)$, here $M$ models Kirchhoff-…
In this paper we study the following class of nonlocal {problems} involving Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg type critical growth \begin{align*} L(u)&-λh(x)|x|^{-2(1+a)}u=μf(x)|u|^{q-2}u+|x|^{-pb}|u|^{p-2}u\;\; \text{in } \mathbb R^N, \end{align*} where $h(x)\geq 0$, $f(x)$ is a continuous function which may change sign, $λ, μ$ are positive real parameters and $1<q<2$, $4< p=2N/[N+2(b-a)-2]$, $0\leq a<b<a+1<N/2$, $N\geq 3$. Here $$ L(u)=-M\left(\int_{\mathbb R^N} |x|^{-2a}|\nabla u|^2dx\right)\mathrm {div}(|x|^{-2a}\nabla u) $$ and the function $M:\mathbb R^+\cup \{0\} \to\mathbb R^+$ is exactly as i…
We investigate the existence, multiplicity and concentration of nontrivial solutions for the following fractional magnetic Kirchhoff equation with critical growth: \begin{equation*} \left(a\varepsilon^{2s}+b\varepsilon^{4s-3} [u]_{A/\varepsilon}^{2}\right)(-Δ)_{A/\varepsilon}^{s}u+V(x)u=f(|u|^{2})u+|u|^{\2-2}u \quad \mbox{ in } \mathbb{R}^{3}, \end{equation*} where $\varepsilon$ is a small positive parameter, $a, b>0$ are fixed constants, $s\in (\frac{3}{4}, 1)$, $2^{*}_{s}=\frac{6}{3-2s}$ is the fractional critical exponent, $(-Δ)^{s}_{A}$ is the fractional magnetic Laplacian, $A:\mathbb{R}^{…
In this paper, we show the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions of the following fractional Kirchhoff system\\ \begin{equation} \left\{ \begin{array}{rllll} \mc L_M(u)&=λf(x)|u|^{q-2}u+ \frac{2α}{α+β}\left|u\right|^{α-2}u|v|^β& \text{in } Ω,\\ \mc L_M(v)&=μg(x)|v|^{q-2}v+ \frac{2β}{α+β}\left|u\right|^α|v|^{β-2}v & \text{in } Ω,\\ u&=v=0 &\mbox{in } \mathbb{R}^{N}\setminus Ω, \end{array} \right. \end{equation} where $\mc L_M(u)=M\left(\displaystyle \int_Ω|(-Δ)^{\frac{s}{2}}u|^2dx\right)(-Δ)^{s} u $ is a double non-local operator due to Kirchhoff term $M(t)=a+b t$ with $a, b>0$ and f…
The objective of this work is to investigate a nonlocal problem involving singular and critical nonlinearities:\begin{equation*}\left\{\begin{array}{ll} ([u]_{s,p}^p)^{σ-1}(-Δ)^s_p u = \fracλ{u^γ}+u^{ p_s^{*}-1 }\quad \text{in }Ω,\\ u>0,\;\;\;\;\quad \text{in }Ω,\\ u=0,\;\;\;\;\quad \text{in }\mathbb{R}^{N}\setminus Ω,\end{array} \right. \end{equation*} where $Ω$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with the smooth boundary $\partial Ω$, $0 < s< 1<p<\infty$, $N> sp$, $1<σ<p^*_s/p,$ with $p_s^{*}=\frac{Np}{N-ps},$ $ (- Δ)_p^s$ is the nonlocal $p$-Laplace operator and $[u]_{s,p}$ is the Gagliar…
We consider the fractional Schrödinger-Kirchhoff equations with electromagnetic fields and critical nonlinearity $\varepsilon^{2s}M([u]_{s,A_\varepsilon}^2)(-Δ)_{A_\varepsilon}^su + V(x)u =$ $|u|^{2_s^\ast-2}u + h(x,|u|^2)u,$ $\ \ x\in \mathbb{R}^N,$ where $ u(x) \rightarrow 0$ as $|x| \rightarrow \infty,$ and $(-Δ)_{A_\varepsilon}^s$ is the fractional magnetic operator with $0<s<1$, $2_s^\ast = 2N/(N-2s),$ $M : \mathbb{R}^{+}_{0} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}$ is a continuous nondecreasing function, $V:\mathbb{R}^N \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^+_0,$ and $A: \mathbb{R}^N \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^N$ are t…
We establish a continuous embedding $W^{s(\cdot),2}(Ω)\hookrightarrow L^{α(\cdot)}(Ω)$, where the variable exponent $α(x)$ can be close to the critical exponent $2_{s}^*(x)=\frac{2N}{N-2\bar{s}(x)}$, with $\bar{s}(x)=s(x,x)$ for all $x\in\barΩ$. Subsequently, this continuous embedding is used to prove the multiplicity of solutions for critical nonlocal degenerate Kirchhoff problems with a variable singular exponent. Moreover, we also obtain the uniform $L^{\infty}$-estimate of these infinite solutions by a bootstrap argument.
In this paper, we consider the existence and asymptotic properties of solutions to the following Kirchhoff equation \begin{equation}\label{1}\nonumber - \Bigl(a+b\int_{\R^3} {{{\left| {\nabla u} \right|}^2}}\Bigl) Δu =λu+ {| u |^{p - 2}}u+μ{| u |^{q - 2}}u \text { in } \mathbb{R}^{3} \end{equation} under the normalized constraint $\int_{{\mathbb{R}^3}} {{u}^2}=c^2$, where $a\!>\!0$, $b\!>\!0$, $c\!>\!0$, $2\!<\!q\!<\!\frac{14}{3}\!<\! p\!\leq\!6$ or $\frac{14}{3}\!<\!q\!<\! p\!\leq\! 6$, $μ\!>\!0$ and $λ\!\in\!\R$ appears as a Lagrange multiplier. In both cases for the range of $p$ and $q$, th…
We obtain the existence of ground state solution for the nonlocal problem $$ m\left(\int_{\mathbb{R}^2}(|\nabla u|^2 + b(x)u^2) \textrm{d}x\right)(-Δu + b(x)u) = A(x)f(u) \ \ \ \textrm{in} \ \ \ \mathbb{R}^2, $$ where $m$ is a Kirchhoff-type function, $b$ may be negative and noncoercive, $A$ is locally bounded and the function $f$ has critical exponential growth. We also obtain new results for the classical Schrödinger equation, namely the local case $m\equiv 1$. In the proofs we apply Variational Methods beside a new Trudinger-Moser type inequality.
In this work, we study the higher order Kirchhoff type Choquard equation $(KC)$ involving a critical exponential non-linearity and singular weights. We prove the existence of solution to $(KC)$ using Mountain pass Lemma in light of Moser-Trudinger and singular Adams-Moser inequalities. In the second part of the paper, using the Nehari manifold technique and minimization over its suitable subsets, we prove the existence of at least two solutions to the Kirchhoff type Choquard equation $(\mathcal{P_{\la,M}})$ involving convex-concave type non-linearity.
