Dimitri Mugnai^[a]

A Ground state solutions for a system of weakly coupled nonlinear fractional equations in the entire space

Pages: 407-419
Received: 6 May 2016
Accepted: 8 August 2016
Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 35J50, 81T13, 35Q55, 35S05.
Keywords: Fractional operators, nonlinear system, entire solutions, ground state solutions.
Author address:
[a]: University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli 1, 06123 Perugia,Italy

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Abstract: We show the existence of a nontrivial ground state solution for a class of nonlinear pseudo-relativistic systems in the entire space.

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