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Normalized solutions to a kind of fractional Schrödinger equation with a critical nonlinearity

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In this paper, we study normalized solutions of the fractional Schrödinger equation with a critical nonlinearity

$$\begin{aligned} {\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta )^{s}u=\lambda u+|u|^{p-2}u+|u|^{2_{s}^{*}-2}u\\ \int \limits _{{\mathbb {R}}^{N}}u^{2}=a^{2} \end{array}\right. } \end{aligned}$$

where \(N\ge 2\), \(s\in (0,1)\), \(a>0\), \(2<p<2_{s}^{*}=\frac{2N}{2N-2s}\) and \((-\Delta )^{s}\) is the fractional Laplace operator. We prove the existence of the normalized solutions under different conditions on a, p, s and N.

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Zhang, P., Han, Z. Normalized solutions to a kind of fractional Schrödinger equation with a critical nonlinearity. Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 73, 149 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-022-01792-y

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