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Non-degeneracy and local uniqueness of bubbling solutions for fractional almost critical problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2025

Qian Fang
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, and Jiangxi Provincial Center for Applied Mathematics, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, Jiangxi People’s Republic of China (fqian2333@163.com, benniao_li@jxnu.edu.cn)
Benniao Li
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, and Jiangxi Provincial Center for Applied Mathematics, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, Jiangxi People’s Republic of China (fqian2333@163.com, benniao_li@jxnu.edu.cn)
Wei Long*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, and Jiangxi Provincial Center for Applied Mathematics, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, Jiangxi People’s Republic of China (lwhope@jxnu.edu.cn)
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*Corresponding author.
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Abstract

This paper is concerned with the following problem involving almost critical growth

\begin{equation*}\begin{cases}(-\Delta) ^su=|u|^{2_{s}^{*}-2-\varepsilon}u,& \text{in } \varOmega ,\\u=0,& \text{on } \Sigma ,\\\end{cases}\end{equation*}

where $2_{s}^{*}=\frac{2N}{N-2s}$, $s\in(\frac{1}{2},1)$, $N \gt 2s$, Ω is a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^N$, ɛ is a small parameter, and the boundary Σ is given in different ways according to the different definitions of the fractional Laplacian operator $(-\Delta)^{s}$. The operator $(-\Delta)^{s}$ is defined in two types: the spectral fractional Laplacian and the restricted fractional Laplacian. For the spectral case, Σ stands for $\partial \Omega$; for the restricted case, Σ is $\mathbb{R}^{N}\setminus \Omega$. Firstly, we provide a positive confirmation of the fractional Brezis–Peletier conjecture, that is, the above almost critical problem has a single bubbling solution concentrating around the non-degenerate critical point of the Robin function. Furthermore, the non-degeneracy andlocal uniqueness of this bubbling solution are established.

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Society of Edinburgh