Existence of Positive Solutions for Kirchhoff Type Problems with Critical Exponent

Authors

  • Yijing Sun School of Mathematics, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Xing Liu School of Mathematics, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4208/jpde.v25.n2.5

Keywords:

Freedricksz transition;variational problem;liquid crystals;Landau-de Gennes functional

Abstract

In this paper,we consider the following Kirchhoff type problemwith critical exponent  $-(a+b∫_Ω|∇u|^2dx)Δu=λu^q+u^5, in\ Ω,  u=0, on\ ∂Ω$,  where $Ω⊂R^3$ is a bounded smooth domain, $0< q < 1$ and the parameters $a,b,λ > 0$. We show that there exists a positive constant $T_4(a)$ depending only on a, such that for each $a > 0$ and $0 < λ < T_4(a)$, the above problem has at least one positive solution. The method we used here is based on the Nehari manifold, Ekeland's variational principle and the concentration compactness principle.

Published

2020-05-12

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