Global compactness results for fractional $p$-Laplace Hardy Sobolev operator on a bounded domain
Nirjan Biswas
TL;DR
This work analyzes global compactness for a nonlinear critical Hardy-Sobolev problem driven by the fractional $p$-Laplace operator on a bounded domain. Building on Struwe-type ideas, it proves a complete Palais–Smale decomposition of PS sequences into a weak limit solving the original equation and finitely many bubble profiles solving limiting equations on $\mathbb{R}^d$, with precise energy and norm splitting. A key novelty is the role of the Hardy potential and the parameter $\alpha$, which yields either one or two bubble types depending on $\alpha$, and leads to a clear separation of scales and centers ensuring bubble decoupling. The results extend known global compactness frameworks to the nonlocal fractional $p$-Laplacian with Hardy-Sobolev structure and provide a pathway to obtain positive weak solutions via constrained minimization on the Nehari manifold.
Abstract
In this paper, we establish a Struwe type global compactness result for a class of nonlinear critical Hardy-Sobolev exponent problems driven by the fractional $p$-Laplace Hardy-Sobolev operator.
