Fractional Laplacian equations with critical Sobolev exponent (Q496986)

The paper under review extends in a fractional setting some results concerning the existence of nontrivial solutions for a class of nonlocal elliptic Dirichlet problems involving critical nonlinear terms. The basic analytic tool to establish the existence of a nontrivial solution is the linking method. The linking geometry is stated in relationship with the value of the parameter and the eigenvalues of the operator. This relation also establishes an energy criterion for the associated functional and the best constant in the fractional Sobolev embedding in order to use compactness of the Palais-Smale sequence.