A Global Compact Result for a Fractional Elliptic Problem with Hardy term and critical non-linearity on the whole space

Abstract

In this paper, we deal with a fractional elliptic equation with critical Sobolev nonlinearity and Hardy term $$ (-\Delta)^{\alpha} u-\mu\frac{u}{|x|^{2\alpha}}+a(x) u=|u|^{2^*-2}u+k(x)|u|^{q-2}u$$ $$ u\,\in\,H^\alpha({\mathbb R}^N),$$ where $2<q< 2^*$, $0<\alpha<1$, $N>4\alpha$, $2^*=2N/(N-2\alpha)$ is the critical Sobolev exponent, $a(x),k(x)\in C({\mathbb R}^N)$. Through a compactness analysis of the functional associated to $(*)$, we obtain the existence of positive solutions for $(*)$ under certain assumptions on $a(x),k(x)$.