Solutions of a pure critical exponent problem involving the half-Laplacian in annular-shaped domains

Publication date 19 December 2011

Abstract: We consider the nonlinear and nonlocal problem

A_{1/2}u=|u|^{2^sharp-2}u ext{in Omega, quad u=0 ext{on} partialOmega

where

A_{1 / 2}

represents the square root of the Laplacian in a bounded domain with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions,

O m e g a

is a bounded smooth domain in

R^{n}

,

n g e 2

and

2^{s h a r p} = 2 n / (n - 1)

is the critical trace-Sobolev exponent. We assume that

O m e g a

is annular-shaped, i.e., there exist

R_{2} > R_{1} > 0

constants such that

x i n R^{n} e x t = s . t . R_{1} < | x | < R_{2} s u b s e t O m e g a

and

0 o t i n O m e g a

, and invariant under a group

G a m m a

of orthogonal transformations of

R^{n}

without fixed points. We establish the existence of positive and multiple sign changing solutions in the two following cases: if

R_{1} / R_{2}

is arbitrary and the minimal

G a m m a

-orbit of

O m e g a

is large enough, or if

R_{1} / R_{2}

is small enough and

G a m m a

is arbitrary.

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