Elliptic problems with critical exponents and Hardy potentials. (Q1811800)

The paper deals with the existence of solutions of the nonlinear elliptic problem: \[ -\Delta u(x)- \lambda u(x)-\mu \frac{u(x)}{|x|^2}= (a(x))^{2^*-1}, \;x\in\Omega, \qquad u(x)>0, \;x\in\Omega, \qquad x(0)=0, \;x\in\partial\Omega, \] where \(\Omega\) denotes an open set containing the origin, bounded or not, of \(\mathbb R^N\) with \(N\geq 4\). As usual, \(2^*= \frac{2N}{N-2}\) is the critical exponent in the Sobolev inequality. Under various natural assumption on the domain \(\Omega\), which include some kinds of unbounded domains, the authors prove the existence of ground states and of symmetric solutions.