Large number of bubble solutions for a perturbed fractional Laplacian equation

Abstract

This paper deals with the following nonlinear perturbed fractional Laplacian equation $$(-\Delta)^s u = K(|y'|,y'')u^{\frac{N+2s}{N-2s}\pm\epsilon},\,\,u>0,\,\,u\in D^{1,s}(\mathbb{R}^N),$$ where $0<s<1, N\geq 4,$ $(y',y'')\in \mathbb{R}^2\times \mathbb{R}^{N-2},$ $\epsilon>0$ is a small parameter and $K(y)$ is nonnegative and bounded. By combining a finite reduction argument and local Pohozaev type of identities, we prove that if $N\geq 4,\max\{\frac{N+1-\sqrt{N^{2}-2N+9}}{4},\frac{3-\sqrt{N^{2}-6N+13}}{2}\}<s<1$ and $K(r,y'')$ has a stable critical point $(r_0, y_0'')$ with $r_0>0$ and $K(r_0, y_0'')>0,$ then the above problem has large number of bubble solutions if $\epsilon>0$ is small enough. Also there exist solutions whose functional energy is in the order $\epsilon^{-\frac{N-2s-2}{(N-2s)^{2}}}$. Here, instead of estimating directly the derivatives of the reduced functional, we apply some local Pohozaev identities to locate the concentration points of the bubble solutions. Moreover, the concentration points of the bubble solutions include a saddle point of $K(y)$.