The Brezis-Nirenberg problem for the fractional $p$-Laplacian involving critical Hardy-Sobolev exponents

Abstract

We obtain existence, multiplicity, and bifurcation results for the Brezis-Nirenberg problem for the fractional $p$\nobreakdash-Laplacian operator, involving critical Hardy-Sobolev exponents. Our results are mainly extend results in the literature for $\alpha=0$. In the absence of an explicit formula for a minimizer in the fractional Hardy-Sobolev inequality $\alpha\not= 0$, we get around this difficulty by working with certain asymptotic estimates for minimizers recently obtained in \cite{MM}.