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A Critical Concave–Convex Kirchhoff-Type Equation in \(\mathbb R^4\) Involving Potentials Which May Vanish at Infinity

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We establish the existence and multiplicity of solutions for a Kirchhoff-type problem in \(\mathbb R^4\) involving a critical and concave–convex nonlinearity. Since in dimension four, the Sobolev critical exponent is \(2^*=4\), there is a tie between the growth of the nonlocal term and the critical nonlinearity. This turns out to be a challenge to study our problem from the variational point of view. Some of the main tools used in this paper are the mountain-pass and Ekeland’s theorems, Lions’ Concentration Compactness Principle and an extension to \(\mathbb R^N\) of the Struwe’s global compactness theorem.

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  1. \(K\equiv 1\) in the whole \(\mathbb {R}^4\) in second case.

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    Marcelo C. Ferreira

  2. Departamento de Matemáticas y Ciencia de la Computación, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Casilla 307, Correo 2, Santiago, Chile

    Pedro Ubilla

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Ferreira, M.C., Ubilla, P. A Critical Concave–Convex Kirchhoff-Type Equation in \(\mathbb R^4\) Involving Potentials Which May Vanish at Infinity. Ann. Henri Poincaré 23, 25–47 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-021-01105-5

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