Multiple Positive Solutions to a Kirchhoff Type Problem Involving a Critical Nonlinearity in ℝ3

In this paper, we investigate a class of Kirchhoff type problems in {\mathbb{R}^{3}} involving a critical nonlinearity, namely,-\biggl{(}1+b\int_{\mathbb{R}^{3}}\lvert\nabla u|^{2}\,dx\biggr{)}\triangle u=% \lambda f(x)u+|u|^{4}u,\quad u\in D^{1,2}(\mathbb{R}^{3}),where {b>0}, {\lambda>\lambda_{1}} and {\lambda_{1}} is the principal eigenvalue of {-\triangle u=\lambda f(x)u}, {u\in D^{1,2}(\mathbb{R}^{3})}. We prove that there exists {\delta>0} such that the above problem has at least two positive solutions for {\lambda_{1}<\lambda<\lambda_{1}+\delta}. Furthermore, we obtain the existence of ground state solutions. Our tools are the Nehari manifold and the concentration compactness principle. This paper can be regarded as an extension of Naimen’s work [21].