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May  2018, 17(3): 1147-1159. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018055

## Sign-changing solutions for non-local elliptic equations with asymptotically linear term

 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410083, P. R. China

* Corresponding author: XHT

Received  January 2017 Revised  November 2017 Published  January 2018

Fund Project: XHT is supported by NNSF grant No.11571370

In this article, we study the existence of sign-changing solutions for a problem driven by a non-local integrodifferential operator with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition
 $\left\{ \begin{array}{ll}-\mathcal{L}_Ku = f(x,u) &\text{in}~Ω, \\u = 0 &\text{in}~\mathbb{R}^n\setminusΩ, \end{array} \right.\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \left( 1 \right)$
where $Ω\subset\mathbb{R}^n(n≥2)$ is a bounded, smooth domain and $f(x, u)$ is asymptotically linear at infinity with respect to $u$. By introducing some new ideas and combining constraint variational method with the quantitative deformation lemma, we prove that there exists a sign-changing solution of problem (1).
Citation: Huxiao Luo, Xianhua Tang, Zu Gao. Sign-changing solutions for non-local elliptic equations with asymptotically linear term. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2018, 17 (3) : 1147-1159. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018055
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