Semilinear fractional elliptic equations with measures in unbounded domain

Abstract

In this paper, we study the existence of nonnegative weak solutions to (E) $ (-\Delta)^\alpha u+h(u)=\nu $ in a general regular domain $\Omega$, which vanish in $\R^N\setminus\Omega$, where $(-\Delta)^\alpha$ denotes the fractional Laplacian with $\alpha\in(0,1)$, $\nu$ is a nonnegative Radon measure and $h:\mathbb{R}_+\to\mathbb{R}_+$ is a continuous nondecreasing function satisfying a subcritical integrability condition. Furthermore, we analyze properties of weak solution $u_k$ to $(E)$ with $\Omega=\mathbb{R}^N$, $\nu=k\delta_0$ and $h(s)=s^p$, where $k>0$, $p\in(0,\frac{N}{N-2\alpha})$ and $\delta_0$ denotes Dirac mass at the origin. Finally, we show for $p\in(0,1+\frac{2\alpha}{N}]$ that $u_k\to\infty$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$ as $k\to\infty$, and for $p\in(1+\frac{2\alpha}{N},\frac{N}{N-2\alpha})$ that $\lim_{k\to\infty}u_k(x)=c|x|^{-\frac{2\alpha}{p-1}}$ with $c>0$, which is a classical solution of $ (-\Delta)^\alpha u+u^p=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^N\setminus\{0\}$.