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Normalized solutions to a class of Kirchhoff equations with Sobolev critical exponent

Analysis of PDEs 2021-03-16 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the existence and asymptotic properties of solutions to the following Kirchhoff equation \begin{equation}\label{1}\nonumber - \Bigl(a+b\int_{{\R^3}} {{{\left| {\nabla u} \right|}^2}}\Bigl) \Delta u =\lambda u+ {| u |^{p - 2}}u+\mu {| u |^{q - 2}}u \text { in } \mathbb{R}^{3} \end{equation} under the normalized constraint R3u2=c2\int_{{\mathbb{R}^3}} {{u}^2}=c^2, where a ⁣> ⁣0a\!>\!0, b ⁣> ⁣0b\!>\!0, c ⁣> ⁣0c\!>\!0, 2 ⁣< ⁣q ⁣< ⁣143 ⁣< ⁣p ⁣ ⁣62\!<\!q\!<\!\frac{14}{3}\!<\! p\!\leq\!6 or 143 ⁣< ⁣q ⁣< ⁣p ⁣ ⁣6\frac{14}{3}\!<\!q\!<\! p\!\leq\! 6, μ ⁣> ⁣0\mu\!>\!0 and λ ⁣ ⁣R\lambda\!\in\!\R appears as a Lagrange multiplier. In both cases for the range of pp and qq, the Sobolev critical exponent p ⁣= ⁣6p\!=\!6 is involved and the corresponding energy functional is unbounded from below on Sc={uH1(R3):R3u2=c2}S_c=\Big\{ u \in H^{1}({\mathbb{R}^3}): \int_{{\mathbb{R}^3}} {{u}^2}=c^2 \Big\}. If 2 ⁣< ⁣q ⁣< ⁣1032\!<\!q\!<\!\frac{10}{3} and 143 ⁣< ⁣p ⁣< ⁣6\frac{14}{3}\!<\! p\!<\!6, we obtain a multiplicity result to the equation. If 2 ⁣< ⁣q ⁣< ⁣103 ⁣< ⁣p ⁣= ⁣62\!<\!q\!<\!\frac{10}{3}\!<\! p\!=\!6 or 143 ⁣< ⁣q ⁣< ⁣p ⁣ ⁣6\frac{14}{3}\!<\!q\!<\! p\!\leq\! 6, we get a ground state solution to the equation. Furthermore, we derive several asymptotic results on the obtained normalized solutions. Our results extend the results of N. Soave (J. Differential Equations 2020 &\& J. Funct. Anal. 2020), which studied the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with combined nonlinearities, to the Kirchhoff equations. To deal with the special difficulties created by the nonlocal term (R3u2)Δu({\int_{{\R^3}} {\left| {\nabla u} \right|} ^2}) \Delta u appearing in Kirchhoff type equations, we develop a perturbed Pohozaev constraint approach and we find a way to get a clear picture of the profile of the fiber map via careful analysis. In the meantime, we need some subtle energy estimates under the L2L^2-constraint to recover compactness in the Sobolev critical case.

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@article{arxiv.2103.08106,
  title  = {Normalized solutions to a class of Kirchhoff equations with Sobolev critical exponent},
  author = {Gongbao Li and Xiao Luo and Tao Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.08106},
  year   = {2021}
}