Hénon type equations with nonlinearities in the critical growth range

Abstract

In this work, using variational methods we have investigated the existence of solutions for some Hénon type equations, which are characterized by the presence of the weight lxlᵅ in the nonlinearity with α > 0. When we are working in the radial context, this characteristic modifies the critical growth of the nonlinearities in some senses. This fact allows us to study some well-known problems under new perspectives. For this purpose, we have considered three different classes of problems with critical nonlinearity which presents the weight of Hénon. Firstly, we have studied the class of problem with a Trudinger- Moser nonlinearity in critical range in R². In the subcritical case, there was no diference if we have looked for weak solutions in H¹₀ (B₁) or in H¹₀,rad(B₁). Nevertheless, in the critical case we have needed to adapt some hypotheses when we have changed the space where we were seeking the solutions. For the second problem, we have kept working with exponential nonlinearity in R², but we were treating an Ambrosseti-Prodi problem for which we have searched two weak solutions. In the subcritical case, analogously to first problem, the radially symmetric solutions were obtained as the solutions in H¹₀ (B₁), what have not happened in the critical case. Thus, again some assumptions have had to depend on the context where we were searching for the solutions. Lastly, we have studied a natural version of the second problem with the nonlinearity involving critical Sobolev growth in Rᴺ (N ≥ 3). In this last problem, we have searched the existence of solutions only in the radial critical case because the others cases were almost identical to problems with nonlinearities without the weight of Hénon.