On a critical Maxwell equation in nonlocal media

Abstract

In this paper, we study the existence of solutions for a critical time-harmonic Maxwell equation in nonlocal media. By introducing some suitable Coulomb spaces involving curl operator, we are able to obtain the ground state solutions of the curl-curl equation via the method of constraining Nehari-Pankov manifold. Correspondingly, some sharp constants of the Sobolev-like inequalities with curl operator are obtained by a nonlocal version of the concentration-compactness principle.