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On indefinite Kirchhoff-type equations under the combined effect of linear and superlinear terms

Analysis of PDEs 2024-06-19 v1

Abstract

We investigate a class of Kirchhoff type equations involving a combination of linear and superlinear terms as follows: \begin{equation*} -\left( a\int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}|\nabla u|^{2}dx+1\right) \Delta u+\mu V(x)u=\lambda f(x)u+g(x)|u|^{p-2}u\quad \text{ in }\mathbb{R}^{N}, \end{equation*}% where N3,2<p<2:=2NN2N\geq 3,2<p<2^{\ast }:=\frac{2N}{N-2}, VC(RN)V\in C(\mathbb{R}^{N}) is a potential well with the bottom Ω:=int{xRN  V(x)=0}\Omega :=int\{x\in \mathbb{R}^{N}\ |\ V(x)=0\}. When N=3N=3 and 4<p<64<p<6, for each a>0a>0 and μ\mu sufficiently large, we obtain that at least one positive solution exists for % 0<\lambda\leq\lambda _{1}(f_{\Omega}) while at least two positive solutions exist for λ1(fΩ)<λ<λ1(fΩ)+δa\lambda _{1}(f_{\Omega })< \lambda<\lambda _{1}(f_{\Omega})+\delta_{a} without any assumption on the integral % \int_{\Omega }g(x)\phi _{1}^{p}dx, where λ1(fΩ)>0\lambda _{1}(f_{\Omega })>0 is the principal eigenvalue of Δ-\Delta in H01(Ω)H_{0}^{1}(\Omega ) with weight function fΩ:=fΩf_{\Omega }:=f|_{\Omega }, and ϕ1>0\phi _{1}>0 is the corresponding principal eigenfunction. When N3N\geq 3 and 2<p<min{4,2}2<p<\min \{4,2^{\ast }\}, for % \mu sufficiently large, we conclude that (i)(i) at least two positive solutions exist for a>0a>0 small and 0<λ<λ1(fΩ)0<\lambda <\lambda _{1}(f_{\Omega }); % (ii) under the classical assumption Ωg(x)ϕ1pdx<0\int_{\Omega }g(x)\phi _{1}^{p}dx<0, at least three positive solutions exist for a>0a>0 small and λ1(fΩ)λ<λ1(fΩ)+δ\lambda _{1}(f_{\Omega })\leq \lambda<\lambda _{1}(f_{\Omega})+\overline{\delta }% _{a} ; (iii)(iii) under the assumption Ωg(x)ϕ1pdx>0\int_{\Omega }g(x)\phi _{1}^{p}dx>0, at least two positive solutions exist for a>a0(p)a>a_{0}(p) and λa+<λ<λ1(fΩ)\lambda^{+}_{a}< \lambda<\lambda _{1}(f_{\Omega}) for some a0(p)>0a_{0}(p)>0 and λa+0\lambda^{+}_{a}\geq0.

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@article{arxiv.2008.08497,
  title  = {On indefinite Kirchhoff-type equations under the combined effect of linear and superlinear terms},
  author = {Juntao Sun and Kuan-Hsiang Wang and Tsung-fang Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.08497},
  year   = {2024}
}