AIMS Mathematics, 2019, 4(2): 299-307. doi: 10.3934/math.2018.2.299.

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Existence of multiple non-trivial solutions for a nonlocal problem

1 School of Preparatory Education, Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming 650500, P.R. China
2 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Central south University, Changsha 410205 P.R. China
3 Department of Mathematics, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, P.R. China

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In this paper, we are concerned with the following general nonlocal problem\begin{equation*}\begin{cases}-\mathcal{L}_K u=\lambda_1u+f(x,u)& \text{in}\ \Omega,\\u=0& \text{in}\ \mathbb{R}^N\backslash\Omega,\end{cases}\end{equation*}where $\lambda_1$ denotes the first eigenvalue of the nonlocal integro-differential operator $-\mathcal{L}_K$, $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ is open, bounded domain with smooth boundary. Under several structural assumptions on $f$, we verify that the problem possesses at least two non-trivial solutions and locate the region in different parts of the Hilbert space by variational method. As a particular case, we derive an existence theorem for the following equation driven by the fractional Laplacian\begin{equation*}\begin{cases}(-\Delta)^su=\lambda_1u+f(x,u)& \text{in}\ \Omega,\\u=0& \text{in}\ \mathbb{R}^N\backslash\Omega.\end{cases}\end{equation*}
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Citation: Xianyong Yang, Zhipeng Yang. Existence of multiple non-trivial solutions for a nonlocal problem. AIMS Mathematics, 2019, 4(2): 299-307. doi: 10.3934/math.2018.2.299

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