Periodic solutions for critical fractional problems

We deal with the existence of $2\pi$-periodic solutions to the following non-local critical problem \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{array}{ll} [(-\Delta_{x}+m^{2})^{s}-m^{2s}]u=W(x)|u|^{2^{*}_{s}-2}u+ f(x, u) &\mbox{in} (-\pi,\pi)^{N} \\ u(x+2\pi e_{i})=u(x) &\mbox{for all} x \in \mathbb{R}^{N}, \quad i=1, \dots, N, \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} where $s\in (0,1)$, $N \geq 4s$, $m\geq 0$, $2^{*}_{s}=\frac{2N}{N-2s}$ is the fractional critical Sobolev exponent, $W(x)$ is a positive continuous function, and $f(x, u)$ is a superlinear $2\pi$-periodic (in $x$) continuous function with subcritical growth. When $m>0$, the existence of a nonconstant periodic solution is obtained by applying the Linking Theorem, after transforming the above non-local problem into a degenerate elliptic problem in the half-cylinder $(-\pi,\pi)^{N}\times (0, \infty)$, with a nonlinear Neumann boundary condition, through a suitable variant of the extension method in periodic setting. We also consider the case $m=0$ by using a careful procedure of limit. As far as we know, all these results are new.Comment: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (2018

The spectrum of the Hilbert space valued second derivative with general self-adjoint boundary conditions

We consider a large class of self-adjoint elliptic problem associated with the second derivative acting on a space of vector-valued functions. We present two different approaches to the study of the associated eigenvalues problems. The first, more general one allows to replace a secular equation (which is well-known in some special cases) by an abstract rank condition. The latter seems to apply particularly well to a specific boundary condition, sometimes dubbed "anti-Kirchhoff" in the literature, that arise in the theory of differential operators on graphs; it also permits to discuss interesting and more direct connections between the spectrum of the differential operator and some graph theoretical quantities. In either case our results yield, among other, some results on the symmetry of the spectrum

Perturbed nonlocal fourth order equations of Kirchhoff type with Navier boundary conditions

Abstract We investigate the existence of multiple solutions for perturbed nonlocal fourth-order equations of Kirchhoff type under Navier boundary conditions. We give some new criteria for guaranteeing that the perturbed fourth-order equations of Kirchhoff type have at least three weak solutions by using a variational method and some critical point theorems due to Ricceri. We extend and improve some recent results. Finally, by presenting two examples, we ensure the applicability of our results