Unbalanced fractional elliptic problems with exponential nonlinearity: subcritical and critical cases

Abstract

This paper deals with the qualitative analysis of solutions to the following $(p,q)$-fractional equation: \begin{equation*} \begin{array}{rllll} (-Δ)^{s_1}_{p}u+(-Δ)^{s_2}_{q}u+V(x) \big(|u|^{p-2}u+|u|^{q-2}u\big) = K(x)\frac{f(u)}{|x|^\ba} \; \text{ in } \mb R^N, \end{array} \end{equation*} \noi where $1<q<p$, $0<s_2\le s_1<1$, $p{s}_1=N$, $\ba\in[0,N)$, and $V,K:\mb R^N\to\mb R$, $f:\mb R\to \mb R$ are continuous functions satisfying some natural hypotheses. We are concerned both with the case when $f$ has a subcritical growth and with the critical framework with respect to the exponential nonlinearity. By combining a Moser-Trudinger type inequality for fractional Sobolev spaces with Schwarz symmetrization techniques and related variational methods, we prove the existence of nonnegative solutions.

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