Nonlocal Lazer–McKenna-type problem perturbed by the Hardy’s potential and its parabolic equivalence

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AbstractIn this paper, we study the effect of Hardy potential on the existence or nonexistence of solutions to the following fractional problem involving a singular nonlinearity: $$\begin{aligned} \textstyle\begin{cases} (-\Delta )^{s} u = \lambda \frac{u}{ \vert x \vert ^{2s}} + \frac{\mu }{u^{\gamma }}+f & \text{in } \Omega, \\ u>0 & \text{in } \Omega, \\ u=0 & \text{in } (\mathbb{R}^{N} \setminus \Omega ). \end{cases}\displaystyle \end{aligned}$$ { ( − Δ ) s u = λ u | x | 2 s + μ u γ + f in  Ω , u > 0 in  Ω , u = 0 in  ( R N ∖ Ω ) . Here $0 < s<1$ 0 < s < 1 , $\lambda >0$ λ > 0 , $\gamma >0$ γ > 0 , and $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{N}$ Ω ⊂ R N ($N > 2s$ N > 2 s ) is a bounded smooth domain such that $0 \in \Omega $ 0 ∈ Ω . Moreover, $0 \leq \mu,f \in L^{1}(\Omega )$ 0 ≤ μ , f ∈ L 1 ( Ω ) . For $0< \lambda \leq \Lambda _{N,s}$ 0 < λ ≤ Λ N , s , $\Lambda _{N,s}$ Λ N , s being the best constant in the fractional Hardy inequality, we find a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a positive weak solution to the problem with respect to the data μ and f. Also, for a regular datum of f, under suitable assumptions, we obtain some existence and uniqueness results and calculate the rate of growth of solutions. Moreover, we mention a nonexistence and a complete blowup result for the case $\lambda > \Lambda _{N,s}$ λ > Λ N , s . Besides, we consider the parabolic equivalence of the above problem in the case $\mu \equiv 1$ μ ≡ 1 and some suitable $f(x,t)$ f ( x , t ) , that is, $$\begin{aligned} \textstyle\begin{cases} u_{t}+(-\Delta )^{s} u = \lambda \frac{u}{ \vert x \vert ^{2s}} + \frac{1}{u^{\gamma }}+f(x,t) & \text{in } \Omega \times (0,T), \\ u>0 & \text{in } \Omega \times (0,T), \\ u =0 & \text{in } (\mathbb{R}^{N} \setminus \Omega ) \times (0,T), \\ u(x,0)=u_{0} & \text{in } \mathbb{R}^{N}, \end{cases}\displaystyle \end{aligned}$$ { u t + ( − Δ ) s u = λ u | x | 2 s + 1 u γ + f ( x , t ) in  Ω × ( 0 , T ) , u > 0 in  Ω × ( 0 , T ) , u = 0 in  ( R N ∖ Ω ) × ( 0 , T ) , u ( x , 0 ) = u 0 in  R N , where $u_{0} \in X_{0}^{s}(\Omega )$ u 0 ∈ X 0 s ( Ω ) satisfies an appropriate cone condition. In the case $0<\gamma \leq 1$ 0 < γ ≤ 1 or $\gamma >1$ γ > 1 with $2s(\gamma -1)<(\gamma +1)$ 2 s ( γ − 1 ) < ( γ + 1 ) , we show the existence of a unique solution for any $0< \lambda < \Lambda _{N,s}$ 0 < λ < Λ N , s and prove a stabilization result for certain range of λ.