Fractional Hardy equations with critical and supercritical exponents

Abstract

We study the existence/nonexistence and qualitative properties of the positive solutions to the problem \begin{align*} (-\Delta)^s u -\theta\frac{u}{|x|^{2s}}&=u^p - u^q \quad\text{in }\,\, \mathbb{R}^N,\quad u > 0 \quad\text{in }\,\, \mathbb{R}^N, \quad u \in \dot{H}^s(\mathbb{R}^N)\cap L^{q+1}(\mathbb{R}^N), \end{align*} where $s\in (0,1)$, $N>2s$, $q>p\geq{(N+2s)}/{(N-2s)}$, $\theta\in(0, \Lambda_{N,s})$ and $\Lambda_{N,s}$ is the sharp constant in the fractional Hardy inequality. For qualitative properties of the solutions we mean, both the radial symmetry that is obtained by using the moving plane method in a nonlocal setting on the whole $\mathbb{R}^N$, and upper bound behavior of the solutions. To this last end we use a representation result that allows us to transform the original problem into a new nonlocal problem in a weighted fractional space.