Infinitely many sign-changing solutions of a critical fractional equation

Abstract

In this paper, we obtain nonexistence results of positive solutions, and also the existence of an unbounded sequence of solutions that changing sign for some critical problems involving conformally invariant operators on the standard unit sphere, and the fractional Laplacian operator in the Euclidean space. Our arguments are based on a reduction of the initial problem in the Euclidean space to an equivalent problem on the standard unit sphere and vice versa, what together to blow up arguments, a variant of Pohozaev's type identity, a refinement of regularity results for this type operators, and finally, by exploiting the symmetries of the sphere.