We establish the existence of positive non-decreasing radial solutions for a nonlocal nonlinear Neumann problem both in the ball and in the annulus. The nonlinearity that we consider is rather general, allowing for supercritical growth (in the sense of Sobolev embedding). The consequent lack of compactness can be overcome, by working in the cone of non-negative and non-decreasing radial functions. Within this cone, we establish some a priori estimates which allow, via a truncation argument, to use variational methods for proving the existence of solutions. As a side result, we prove a strong maximum principle for nonlocal Neumann problems, which is of independent interest.

A nonlocal supercritical Neumann problem

Eleonora Cinti;Francesca Colasuonno
2020-01-01

Abstract

We establish the existence of positive non-decreasing radial solutions for a nonlocal nonlinear Neumann problem both in the ball and in the annulus. The nonlinearity that we consider is rather general, allowing for supercritical growth (in the sense of Sobolev embedding). The consequent lack of compactness can be overcome, by working in the cone of non-negative and non-decreasing radial functions. Within this cone, we establish some a priori estimates which allow, via a truncation argument, to use variational methods for proving the existence of solutions. As a side result, we prove a strong maximum principle for nonlocal Neumann problems, which is of independent interest.
2020
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jde.2019.09.014
Nonlocal elliptic equation; Fractional Laplacian; Sobolev-supercritical nonlinearities; Nonlocal Neumann boundary conditions; Variational methods.
Eleonora Cinti; Francesca Colasuonno
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