Mass and Extremals Associated with the Hardy-Schrödinger Operator on Hyperbolic Space

Hardy Chan, Nassif Ghoussoub, Saikat Mazumdar, Shaya Shakerian, Luiz Fernando de Oliveira Faria

Published 2017-10-03Version 1

We consider the Hardy-Schr\"odinger operator $ -\Delta_{\mathbb{B}^n}-\gamma{V_2}$ on the Poincar\'e ball model of the Hyperbolic space ${\mathbb{B}^n}$ ($n \geq 3$). Here $V_2$ is a well chosen radially symmetric potential, which behaves like the Hardy potential around its singularity at $0$, i.e., $V_2(r)\sim \frac{1}{r^2}$. Just like in the Euclidean setting, the operator $ -\Delta_{\mathbb{B}^n}-\gamma{V_2}$ is positive definite whenever $\gamma <\frac{(n-2)^2}{4}$, in which case we exhibit explicit solutions for the equation $$-\Delta_{\mathbb{B}^n}u-\gamma{V_2}u=V_{2^*(s)}u^{2^*(s)-1}\quad{\text{ in }}\mathbb{B}^n,$$ where $0\leq s <2$, $2^*(s)=\frac{2(n-s)}{n-2}$, and $V_{2^*(s)}$ is a weight that behaves like $\frac{1}{r^s}$ around $0$. The same equation, on bounded domains $\Omega$ of ${\mathbb{B}^n}$ containing $0$ but not touching the hyperbolic boundary, has positive solutions if $0 < \gamma \leq \frac{(n-2)^{2}}{4}-\frac{1}{4}$. However, if $\frac{(n-2)^{2}}{4}-\frac{1}{4}< \gamma < \frac{(n-2)^{2}}{4}$, the existence of solutions requires the positivity of the "hyperbolic Hardy mass" $m_{_{\mathbb{B}^n}}(\Omega)$ of the domain, a notion that we introduce and analyse therein.