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Let Ω be a bounded domain with a smooth C 2 boundary in ℝn (n ≥ 3), 0 ∈ \(\bar \Omega \), and υ denote the unit outward normal to ∂Ω. In this paper, we are concerned with the following class of boundary value problems:
where 2* = 2n/(n − 2) is the limiting exponent for the embedding of H 1(Ω) into L p(Ω), 2 < p < 2*, \(\bar \mu \triangleq \tfrac{{(n - 2)^2 }}{4}\), η ≥ 0 and λ ∈ ℝ1 are parameters, and α(x) ∈ C(∂Ω), α(x) ≥ 0. Through a compactness analysis of the functional corresponding to the problem (*), we obtain the existence of positive solutions for this problem under various assumptions on the parameters μ, λ and the fact that 0 ∈ Ω or 0 ∈ ∂Ω.
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The research was supported by NSFC(10471052, 10571069, 10631030) and the Key Project of Chinese Ministry of Education(107081) and NCET-07-0350.
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Deng, Y., Jin, L. & Peng, S. A Robin boundary problem with Hardy potential and critical nonlinearities. J Anal Math 104, 125–154 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11854-008-0019-3
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