Bubbling solutions for nonlocal elliptic problems (Q529991)

Summary: We investigate bubbling solutions for the nonlocal equation \[ A^s_{\Omega} u =u^p,\,\, u > 0\quad \text{in } \Omega, \] under homogeneous Dirichlet conditions, where \(\Omega\) is a bounded and smooth domain. The operator \(A^s_{\Omega}\) stands for two types of nonlocal operators that we treat in a unified way: either the spectral fractional Laplacian or the restricted fractional Laplacian. In both cases \(s \in (0,1)\), and the Dirichlet conditions are different: for the spectral fractional Laplacian, we prescribe \(u=0\) on \(\partial \Omega\), and for the restricted fractional Laplacian, we prescribe \(u=0\) on \(\mathbb{R}^n \setminus \Omega\). We construct solutions when the exponent \(p=(n+2s)/(n-2s) \pm \varepsilon\) is close to the \textit{critical one}, concentrating as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0\) near critical points of a reduced function involving the Green and Robin functions of the domain.