Special Session 93: Local and nonlocal elliptic boundary value problems

Solutions to critical equations with a superposition of nonlocal Hartree-type nonlinearities
Artur Marinho
Florida Institute of Technology
Brazil
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Abstract:
We study a class of nonlinear nonlocal elliptic equations in $R^N$ involving a superposition of Hartree-type nonlinearities. These equations are motivated by the Schr\odinger--Poisson--Slater system and arise as natural generalizations of problems with a single nonlocal interaction term. We consider an equation driven by a family of Riesz potentials weighted by a positive Borel measure, leading to a superposed nonlocal operator. To treat this problem, we introduce suitable functional settings, namely the superposed Coulomb space and the associated superposed Coulomb--Sobolev space, and investigate their properties. Using variational methods combined with a recently developed scaling-based critical point theory, we establish existence and multiplicity results for radial solutions for a Brezis--Nirenberg type problem and show that multiplicity depends on the spectral properties of an associated nonlinear eigenvalue problem. Our results extend previous works on single Hartree-type equations and provide a unified framework to handle superpositions of nonlocal interactions of this type.