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Existence of infinitely many solutions for degenerate p-fractional Kirchhoff equations with critical Sobolev–Hardy nonlinearities

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In this paper, we study a class of degenerate p-fractional Kirchhoff equations with critical Hardy–Sobolev nonlinearities

$$\begin{aligned} M\left( \iint _{\mathbb {R}^{2N}}\frac{|u(x)-u(y)|^p}{|x-y|^{N+ps}}\mathrm{d}x\mathrm{d}y\right) (-\Delta )_p^s u = \lambda w(x)|u|^{q-2}u + \frac{|u|^{p_s^*(\alpha )-2}u}{|x|^\alpha },\quad x\in \mathbb {R}^N, \end{aligned}$$

where \((-\Delta )^s_p\) is the fractional p-Laplacian operator with \(0<s<1<p<\infty \), dimension \(N>ps\), \(1<q<p^{*}_{s}(\alpha )\), \(p^*_s(\alpha ) = p(N-\alpha )/(N-ps)\) is the critical exponent of the fractional Hardy–Sobolev exponent with \(\alpha \in [0,ps)\), \(\lambda \) is a positive parameter, M is a nonnegative function, while w is a positive weight. By means of the Kajikiya’s new version of the symmetric mountain pass lemma, we obtain the existence of infinitely many solutions which tend to zero under a suitable value of \(\lambda \). The main feature and difficulty of our equations is the fact that the Kirchhoff term M could be zero at zero, that is the equation is degenerate. To our best knowledge, our results are new even in the Laplacian and p-Laplacian cases.

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Acknowledgements

Y. Q. Song was supported by NSFC (No. 11301038), The Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province (No. 20160101244JC), Research Foundation during the 13th Five-Year Plan Period of Department of Education of Jilin Province, China (JJKH20170648KJ). S. Y. Shi was supported by NSFC grant (No. 11771177), China Automobile Industry Innovation and Development Joint Fund (No. U1664257), Program for Changbaishan Scholars of Jilin Province and Program for JLU Science, Technology Innovative Research Team (No. 2017TD-20).

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Song, Y., Shi, S. Existence of infinitely many solutions for degenerate p-fractional Kirchhoff equations with critical Sobolev–Hardy nonlinearities. Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 68, 128 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-017-0867-8

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