High-order Kirchhoff problems in bounded and unbounded domains (1807.11040v3)

Abstract: Consider the following $m-$polyharmonic Kirchhoff problem: \begin{eqnarray} \label{ea} \begin{cases} M\left(\int_{\O}|D_r u|^{m} +a|u|^m\right)[\Delta^r_m u +a|u|^{m-2}u]= K(x)f(u) &\mbox{in}\quad \Omega, \ u=\left(\frac{\partial}{\partial \nu}\right)^k u=0, \quad &\mbox{on}\quad \partial\Omega, \quad k=1, 2,..... , r-1, \end{cases} \end{eqnarray} where $r \in \N^*$, $m >1$, $N\geq rm+1$, $a\geq 0$, $K\in L^{\infty}(\O)$ is a positive weight function, $M \in C([0,+\infty))$ and $f\in C(\mathbb{R})$ which will be specified later. We will study problem \eqref{ea} in the following different type of domains: \begin{enumerate} \item $a=0$ and $K\in L^{\infty}(\O)$ is a positive weight function if $\Omega$ is a smooth bounded domain of $\R^N$. \item $a>0$ and $K\in L^{\infty}(\O)\cap L^{p}(\O)$, $p \geq 1$ if $\Omega$ is an unbounded smooth domain. \item $\O=\R^N$ and $a=0$ (which called the $m\gamma$-zero mass case). \end{enumerate} We prove the existence of infinitely many solutions of \eqref{ea} for some odd functions $f$ in $u$ satisfying subcritical growth conditions at infinity which are weaker than the analogue of the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition and the standard subcritical polynomial growth. The new aspect consists in employing the Schauder basis of $W_0^{r,m}(\O)$ to verify the geometry of the symmetric mountain pass theorem without any control on $f$ near $0$ if $\Omega$ is a bounded domain and under a suitable condition at $0$ if $\Omega$ is a unbounded domain allowing only to derive the variational setting of \eqref{ea}. Moreover, we introduce a positive quantity $\lambda_M$ similar to the first eigenvalue of the $m$-polyharmonic operator to find a mountain pass solution.