Ground state and least positive energy solutions of elliptic problems involving mixed fractional \(p\)-Laplacians. (Q2076589)

The existence of ground state and least positive energy solutions to problems involving mixed fractional \(p\)-Laplacians are established. The related eigenvalue problem plays a major role in the results which is not linear and have no associated linear eigenspaces. Standard linking arguments based on decompositions of the underlying space into eigenspaces can not be used to obtain solutions. The authors used some abstract critical point theorems based on the \(\mathbb{Z}_2\)-cohomological index to overcome this difficulty.