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MULTIPLICITY RESULTS FOR A NONLINEAR ELLIPTIC PROBLEM INVOLVING THE FRACTIONAL LAPLACIAN

  • Yongqiang XU ,
  • Zhong TAN ,
  • Daoheng SUN
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  • 1. Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China;
    2. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Minnan Normal University, Zhangzhou 363000, China;
    3. School of Mathematical Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China

Received date: 2015-04-04

  Revised date: 2016-05-12

  Online published: 2016-12-25

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This research was supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project (2016M592088) and National Natural Science Foundation of China-NSAF (11271305).

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a class of superlinear elliptic problems involving fractional Laplacian (-Δ)s/2u=λf(u) in a bounded smooth domain with zero Dirichlet boundary condition. We use the method on harmonic extension to study the dependence of the number of sign-changing solutions on the parameter λ.

Cite this article

Yongqiang XU , Zhong TAN , Daoheng SUN . MULTIPLICITY RESULTS FOR A NONLINEAR ELLIPTIC PROBLEM INVOLVING THE FRACTIONAL LAPLACIAN[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2016 , 36(6) : 1793 -1803 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(16)30106-0

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