The Brezis-Nirenberg result for the fractional laplacian

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 367, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 67-102

  Servadei, Raffaella ^a   Valdinoci, Enrico ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Best critical Sobolev constant; Critical non linearities; Fractional Laplacian; Integrodifferential operators; Mountain Pass Theorem; Variational techniques

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924785657     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: 10886850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-2014-05884-4     Document Type: Article

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