# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

December  2016, 36(12): 6873-6898. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016099

## Infinitely many non-radial solutions for the prescribed curvature problem of fractional operator

 1 Department of Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 2 Department of Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Received  December 2015 Revised  April 2016 Published  October 2016

We consider the following problem: \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta)^s u=K(y)u^{p-1} \hbox { in } \ \mathbb{R}^N, \\ u>0, \ y \in \mathbb{R}^N, \end{array}\right.                         (P) \end{equation*} where $s\in(0,\frac{1}{2})$ for $N=3$, $s\in(0,1)$ for $N\geq4$ and $p=\frac{2N}{N-2s}$ is the fractional critical Sobolev exponent. Under the condition that the function $K(y)$ has a local maximum point, we prove the existence of infinitely many non-radial solutions for the problem $(P)$.
Citation: Yuxia Guo, Jianjun Nie. Infinitely many non-radial solutions for the prescribed curvature problem of fractional operator. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2016, 36 (12) : 6873-6898. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016099
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