Existence of nonnegative solutions for fractional Schr\"odinger equations with Neumann condition

Abstract

In this paper we study a Neumann problem for the fractional Laplacian, namely \begin{equation}\left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} \varepsilon^{2s}(- \Delta)^{s}u + u &=& f(u) \ \ &\mbox{in} \ \ \Omega \\ \mathcal{N}_{s}u &=& 0 , \,\, &\text{in} \,\, \mathbb{R}^{N}\backslash \Omega \end{array}\right. \end{equation} where $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{N}$ is a smooth bounded domain, $N>2s$, $s \in (0,1)$, $\varepsilon > 0$ is a parameter and $\mathcal{N}_{s}$ is the nonlocal normal derivative introduced by Dipierro, Ros-Oton, and Valdinoci. We establish the existence of a nonnegative, non-constant small energy solution $u_{\varepsilon}$, and we use the Moser-Nash iteration procedure to show that $u_{\varepsilon} \in L^{\infty}(\Omega)$.