Affiliations: [a] New York University, Shanghai, 1555 Century Avenue, Pudong New District, Shanghai 200122, China. E-mail: hichem.hajaiej@gmail.com | [b] Dipartimento P.A.U., Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Salita Melissari – Feo di Vito, 89124 Reggio Calabria, Italy. E-mail: gmolica@unirc.it | [c] Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences and Earth Sciences, University of Messina, Viale F. Stagno d’Alcontres, 31, 98166 Messina, Italy. E-mail: lvilasi@unime.it
Abstract: We are concerned with existence results for a critical problem of Brézis–Nirenberg-type driven by an integro-differential operator of fractional nature. The latter includes, for a specific choice of the kernel, the usual fractional Laplacian. Under mild assumptions on the subcritical part of the nonlinearity, we provide first the existence of one weak solution through direct minimization of the energy in a small ball of a certain fractional Sobolev space. This approach remains still valid when adding small singular terms. We finally show that for appropriate choices of the parameters involved the mountain-pass approach is also applicable and yields another existence result.
Keywords: Critical nonlinearities, singular nonlinearities, integro-differential operators, fractional Laplacian, existence
