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Nodal solutions for the fractional Yamabe problem on Heisenberg groups

Part of: Miscellaneous topics - Partial differential equations Partial differential equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2019

Alexandru Kristály
Alexandru Kristály*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca400591, Romania and Institute of Applied Mathematics, Óbuda University, Budapest 1034, Hungary (alexandrukristaly@yahoo.com; kristaly.alexandru@nik.uni-obuda.hu)
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Abstract

We prove that the fractional Yamabe equation ${\rm {\cal L}}_\gamma u = \vert u \vert ^{((4\gamma )/(Q-2\gamma ))}u$ on the Heisenberg group ℍn has [n + 1/2] sequences of nodal (sign-changing) weak solutions whose elements have mutually different nodal properties, where ${\rm {\cal L}}_\gamma $ denotes the CR fractional sub-Laplacian operator on ℍn, Q = 2n + 2 is the homogeneous dimension of ℍn, and $\gamma \in \bigcup\nolimits_{k = 1}^n [k,((kQ)/Q-1)))$. Our argument is variational, based on a Ding-type conformal pulling-back transformation of the original problem into a problem on the CR sphere S2n + 1 combined with a suitable Hebey-Vaugon-type compactness result and group-theoretical constructions for special subgroups of the unitary group U(n + 1).

Keywords

CR fractional sub-Laplaciannodal solutionHeisenberg group

MSC classification

Primary: 35R03: Partial differential equations on Heisenberg groups, Lie groups, Carnot groups, etc.
Secondary: 35B38: Critical points
Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 150 , Issue 2 , April 2020 , pp. 771 - 788
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2019

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Footnotes

Dedicated to Professor Patrizia Pucci on the occasion of her 65th birthday.

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