Multiple solutions for elliptic equations driven by higher-order fractional Laplacian
We consider an elliptic partial differential equation driven by higher-order fractional Laplacian $ (-\Delta)^{s} $, $ s \in (1, 2) $ with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition$ \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta)^{s} u = f(x, u) & \text{ in }\Omega, \\ u = 0 & \text{ in } \mathbb{R}^n \setminus \Omega. \ \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} $The above equation has a variational nature, and we investigated the existence and multiplicity results for its weak solutions under various conditions on the nonlinear term $ f $: superlinear growth, concave-convex, and symmetric conditions and their combinations.The existence of two different non-trivial weak solutions was established by mountain pass theorem and Ekeland's variational principle. Furthermore, due to fountain theorem and its dual form, both infinitely many weak solutions with positive energy and infinitely many weak solutions with negative energy were obtained.
Authors
- Xifeng Su
- Fei Cheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0826-2625)
- Jiwen Zhang
Institutions
- Beijing Normal University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3934/cpaa.2025067
- Primary Topic
- Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China