Three solutions for a fractional elliptic problem with asymmetric critical Choquard nonlinearity (2107.04249v1)

Abstract: In this paper we study the existence and multiplicity of weak solutions for the following asymmetric nonlinear Choquard problem on fractional Laplacian: \begin{equation*} \begin{array}{rl} (-\Delta)^s u &= \displaystyle-\lambda|u|^{q-2}u + au + b\left( \int\limits_{\Omega} \frac{(u^{+}(y))^{2^{*}_{\mu ,s}}}{|x-y|^ \mu}\, dy\right) (u^{+})^{2^{*}_{\mu ,s}-2}u \quad\text{in} \; \Omega, u &= 0\quad \text{in} \; \mathbb{R}^{N}\backslash\Omega, \end{array} \end{equation*} where $\Omega$ is open bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ with $C^2$ boundary, $N > 2s$ and $s \in (0,1)$. Here $(-\Delta)^s$ is the fractional Laplace operator, $\lambda > 0$ is a real parameter, $q \in (1, 2)$, $a > 0$ and $b> 0$ are given constants, and $2^{*}_{\mu ,s} = \frac{2N-\mu}{N-2s}$ is the critical exponent in the sense of Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality and the notation $u^{+} = \max {u, 0}$. We prove that the above problem has at least three nontrivial solutions using the Mountain pass Lemma and Linking theorem.