Existence of solutions for a class of integral equations. (Q2148408)

Let \(\rho:\mathbb{R}^N\to\mathbb{R}\) be a suitable positive, bounded, continuous function and let \(K:\mathbb{R}^N\times\mathbb{R}^N\to\mathbb{R}\) be an appropriate non-negative, continuous function. The aim of this paper is devoted to study, by variational methods, the following two nonlocal problems:\[L_Ku=\rho(x)|u|^{p-1}u,\quad\text{in }\mathbb{R}^N,\tag{P}\] where \(0<p<1\), and \(L_Ku: L^{p+1}(\mathbb{R}^N)\to L^{\frac{p}{p+1}}(\mathbb{R}^N)\) is defined by \[L_Ku(x)=\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}K(x,y)u(y)dy;\] \[L_Ku=\varepsilon a(x)|u|^{p-1}u+\rho(x)|u|^{q-1}u,\quad\text{in }\mathbb{R}^N,\tag{Q}\] where, \(\varepsilon>0\), \(0<p<1<q\), \(a\in L^{\frac{q+1}{q-p}}(\mathbb{R}^N)\) is non-negative and \(L_Ku:L^{q+1}(\mathbb{R}^N)\to L^{\frac{q}{q+1}}(\mathbb{R}^N)\) is given as above. The main results for the problems \((P)\) and \((Q)\) are obtained by applying the Mountain Pass Theorem and the Global Minimisation Theorem, respectively. The use of these tools is very interesting since the energy functions associated with the problems are defined in the Lebesgue spaces.