Positive solutions for autonomous and non-autonomous nonlinear critical elliptic problems in exterior domains

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The paper concerns with positive solutions of problems of the type $-Δu+a(x)\, u=u^{p-1}+\varepsilon u^{2^*-1}$ in $Ω\subseteq\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\ge 3$, $2^*={2N\over N-2}$, $20$; in particular $a\equiv {\rm const}$ is allowed. First, some existence results of ground state solutions are proved. Then the case $a(x)\ge a_\infty$ is considered, with $a(x)\not\equiv a_\infty$ or $Ω\neq\mathbb{R}^N$. In such a case, no ground state solution exists and the existence of a bound state solution is proved, for small $\varepsilon$. No hypotheses are assumed on the size of $\mathbb{R}^N\setminusΩ$ and on $\|a-a_\infty\|_{L^{N/2}}$.

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10.48550/arxiv.1806.09890

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