The concentration-compactness principle for the nonlocal anisotropic $p$-Laplacian of mixed order

Abstract

In this paper, we study the existence of minimizers of the Sobolev quotient for a class of nonlocal operators with an orthotropic structure having different exponents of integrability and different orders of differentiability. Our method is based on the concentration-compactness principle which we extend to this class of operators. One consequence of our main result is the existence of a nontrivial nonnegative solution to the corresponding critical problem.