Existence of multiple solutions of p-fractional Laplace operator with sign-changing weight function

Abstract

AbstractIn this article, we study the following p-fractional Laplacian equation: $ (P_{\lambda }) \quad -2\int _{\mathbb {R}^n}\frac{|u(y)-u(x)|^{p-2}(u(y)-u(x))}{|x-y|^{n+p\alpha }} dy = \lambda |u(x)|^{p-2} u(x) + b(x)|u(x)|^{\beta -2}u(x) \quad \text{in } \Omega , \quad u = 0 \quad \text{in }\mathbb {R}^n \setminus \Omega ,\, u\in W^{\alpha ,p}(\mathbb {R}^n), $ where Ω is a bounded domain in ℝn with smooth boundary, n > pα, p ≥ 2, α ∈ (0,1), λ > 0 and b : Ω ⊂ ℝn → ℝ is a sign-changing continuous function. We show the existence and multiplicity of non-negative solutions of (Pλ) with respect to the parameter λ, which changes according to whether 1 < β < p or p < β < p* with p* = np(n-pα)-1 respectively. We discuss both cases separately. Non-existence results are also obtained.