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- Publication date
- 27/04/2017
- Field of study
We consider linear and non-linear boundary value problems associated to the
fractional Hardy-Schr\"odinger operator Lγ,α​:=(−Δ)2α​−∣x∣αγ​ on domains of
Rn containing the singularity 0, where 0<α<2 and 0≤γ<γH​(α), the latter being the best constant in the
fractional Hardy inequality on Rn. We tackle the existence of
least-energy solutions for the borderline boundary value problem
(Lγ,α​−λI)u=∣x∣su2α⋆​(s)−1​ on
Ω, where 0≤s<α<n and 2α⋆​(s)=n−α2(n−s)​ is the critical fractional
Sobolev exponent. We show that if γ is below a certain threshold
γcrit​, then such solutions exist for all 0<λ<λ1​(Lγ,α​), the latter being the first eigenvalue of
Lγ,α​. On the other hand, for γcrit​<γ<γH​(α), we prove existence of such solutions only for those
λ in (0,λ1​(Lγ,α​)) for which the domain Ω
has a positive {\it fractional Hardy-Schr\"odinger mass} mγ,λ​(Ω). This latter notion is introduced by way of an invariant of
the linear equation (Lγ,α​−λI)u=0 on Ω