Infinitely Many Solutions for Fractional <i>p</i>-Laplacian Schrödinger–Kirchhoff Type Equations with Symmetric Variable-Order

Abstract

In this article, we first obtain an embedding result for the Sobolev spaces with variable-order, and then we consider the following Schrödinger–Kirchhoff type equations a+b∫Ω×Ω|ξ(x)−ξ(y)|p|x−y|N+ps(x,y)dxdyp−1(−Δ)ps(·)ξ+λV(x)|ξ|p−2ξ=f(x,ξ),x∈Ω,ξ=0,x∈∂Ω, where Ω is a bounded Lipschitz domain in RN, 1p+∞, a,b>0 are constants, s(·):RN×RN→(0,1) is a continuous and symmetric function with N>s(x,y)p for all (x,y)∈Ω×Ω, λ>0 is a parameter, (−Δ)ps(·) is a fractional p-Laplace operator with variable-order, V(x):Ω→R+ is a potential function, and f(x,ξ):Ω×RN→R is a continuous nonlinearity function. Assuming that V and f satisfy some reasonable hypotheses, we obtain the existence of infinitely many solutions for the above problem by using the fountain theorem and symmetric mountain pass theorem without the Ambrosetti–Rabinowitz ((AR) for short) condition.

Keywords

• Schrödinger–Kirchhoff type equations
• variable-order fractional Laplacian
• fountain theorem
• symmetric mountain pass theorem