Multiple positive solutions for a class of Kirchhoff type problems involving general critical growth

Abstract

In this paper, we study the following nonlinear Kirchhoff problem involving critical growth: $$ \left\{% \begin{array}{ll} -(a+b\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^2dx)\Delta u=|u|^4u+\lambda|u|^{q-2}u, u=0\ \ \text{on}\ \ \partial\Omega, \end{array}% \right. $$ where $1<q<2$, $\lambda,\ a,\ b>0$ are parameters and $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\R^3$. We prove that there exists $\lambda_1=\lambda_1(q,\Omega)>0$ such that for any $\lambda\in(0,\lambda_1)$ and $a,\ b>0$, the above Kirchhoff problem possesses at least two positive solutions and one of them is a positive ground state solution. We also establish the convergence property of the ground state solution as the parameter $b\searrow 0$. More generally, we obtain the same results about the following Kirchhoff problem: $$ \left\{% \begin{array}{ll} -(a+b\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}|\nabla u|^2dx)\Delta u+u=Q(x)|u|^4u+{\lambda}f(x)|u|^{q-2}u, u\in H^1(\mathbb{R}^3), \end{array}% \right. $$ for any $a,\ b>0$ and $\lambda\in \big(0,\lambda_0(q,Q,f)\big)$ under certain conditions of $f(x)$ and $Q(x)$. Finally, we investigate the depending relationship between $\lambda_0$ and $b$ to show that for any (large) $\lambda>0$, there exists a $b_0(\lambda)>0$ such that the above results hold when $b>b_0(\lambda)$ and $a>0$.