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Infinitely many non-radial solutions to a critical Choquard equation

Analysis of PDEs 2025-07-22 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study a class of critical Choquard equations with a symmetric potential, i.e. we consider the equation Δu+V(x)u=(xμu2μ)u2μ2u,\mboxinRN-\Delta u +V(|x|) u =\left(|x|^{-\mu}* |u|^{2^\star_\mu}\right)|u|^{2^\star_\mu-2}u,\quad\mbox{in}\quad\mathbb R^N where V(x)V(|x|) is a bounded, nonnegative and symmetric potential in RN\mathbb R^N with N5N\geq 5, 0<μ40<\mu\leq 4, * stands for the standard convolution and 2μ:=2NμN22^\star_\mu:=\frac{2N-\mu}{N-2} is the upper critical exponent in the sense of the Hardy - Littlewood - Sobolev inequality. By applying a finite dimensional reduction method we prove that if r2V(r)r^2V(r) has a local maximum point or local minimum point r0>0r_0>0 with V(r0)>0V(r_0)>0 then the problem has infinitely many non-radial solutions with arbitrary large energies.

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@article{arxiv.2507.15747,
  title  = {Infinitely many non-radial solutions to a critical Choquard equation},
  author = {Sabrina Caputo and Giusi Vaira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.15747},
  year   = {2025}
}