Bifurcation and multiplicity results for critical Grushin-Choquard problems

Abstract

We consider the following nonlocal Brézis-Nirenberg type critical Choquard problem involving the Grushin operator \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{aligned} -Δ_γ& u =λu + \left(\displaystyle\int_Ω\frac{|u(w)|^{2^*_{γ,μ}}}{d(z-w)^μ}dw\right) |u|^{2^*_{γ,μ}-2}u \quad &&\text{in} \ Ω, u &= 0 \quad &&\text{on} \, \partial Ω, \end{aligned} \right. \end{equation*} where $Ω$ is an open bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N \geq 3$, with $Ω\cap \{ x=0\} \neq \emptyset$, and $λ>0$ is a parameter. Here, $Δ_γ$ represents the Grushin operator, defined as \[ Δ_γu(z) = Δ_x u(z) +(1+γ)^2 |x|^{2γ} Δ_y u(z), \quad γ\geq 0, \] where $z=(x,y)\in Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^m\times \mathbb{R}^n$, $m+n=N \geq 3$ and $2^*_{γ,μ}= \frac{2N_γ-μ}{N_γ-2}$ is the Sobolev critical exponent in the Hardy-Littlewood context with $N_γ= m+(1+γ)n$ is the homogeneous dimension associated to the Grushin operator and $0<μ<N_γ$. The homogeneous norm related to the Grushin operator is denoted by $d(\cdot)$. In this article, we prove the existence of bifurcation from any eigenvalue $λ^*$ of $-Δ_γ$ under Dirichlet boundary conditions. Furthermore, we show that in a suitable left neighborhood of $λ^*$, the number of nontrivial solutions to the problem is at least twice the multiplicity of $λ^*$.