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Existence and concentration result for the fractional Schrödinger equations with critical nonlinearities

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In this paper we consider the nonlinear fractional Schrödinger equations in presence of a critical power nonlinearity and a subcritical term

$$\begin{aligned} \varepsilon ^{2s}(-\Delta )^s u+V(x)u=f(u)+u^{2^*_s-1}\quad x\in \mathbb R^N, \end{aligned}$$

where \(s\in (0,1), 2^*_s=2N/(N-2s), N>2s, (-\Delta )^s\) is the fractional laplacian and f(u) is of subcritical nonlinearity, and \(\varepsilon \) is a positive parameter. Under a local condition imposed on the potential V, we relate the number of positive solutions with the topology of the set where the potential attains its minimum. In the proofs we apply variational methods, penalization techniques and Ljusternik–Schnirelmann theory.

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    Xiaoming He

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X. He is supported by NSFC (11371212, 10601063, 11271386) while W. Zou by NSFC (11371212, 11271386).

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He, X., Zou, W. Existence and concentration result for the fractional Schrödinger equations with critical nonlinearities. Calc. Var. 55, 91 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-016-1045-0

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