Ground State Solutions for a Non-Local Type Problem in Fractional Orlicz Sobolev Spaces

Abstract

In this paper, we study the following non-local problem in fractional Orlicz–Sobolev spaces: (−ΔΦ)su+V(x)a(|u|)u=f(x,u), x∈RN, where (−ΔΦ)s(s∈(0,1)) denotes the non-local and maybe non-homogeneous operator, the so-called fractional Φ-Laplacian. Without assuming the Ambrosetti–Rabinowitz type and the Nehari type conditions on the non-linearity f, we obtain the existence of ground state solutions for the above problem with periodic potential function V(x). The proof is based on a variant version of the mountain pass theorem and a Lions’ type result in fractional Orlicz–Sobolev spaces.

Keywords

• fractional Orlicz–Sobolev spaces
• fractional Φ-Laplacian
• critical point
• ground state