Concentration-compactness principle and applications to nonlocal elliptic problems

Abstract

The main goal of this work is to analyze concentration-compactness principles for fractional Sobolev spaces based on the concentration compactness principle of P.-L. Lions and in the pro le decomposition for weak convergence in Hilbert spaces due to K. Tintarev and K.-H Fieseler. As application, we address questions on compactness of the associated energy functional to the following nonlocal elliptic problems, $' ''''''&' ''''''% p qsu fpx; uq in RN; p qsu 􀀀 apxqu fpx; uq in RN; $&% p qsu 􀀀 V pxqu 􀀀 Kpxq u fpx; uq 􀀀 gpx; uq in R3; p q Kpxqu2 in R3; where 0 s 1; 0 1; 2 􀀀 4s ¥ 3; ¡ 0 and Kpxq ¥ 0 belongs to a suitable Lebesgue space. We obtain existence results for a wide class of possible singular potentials apxq; not necessarily bounded away from zero and for oscillatory nonlinearities in both subcritical and critical growth range that may not satisfy the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition.