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We establish some existence results for the Brezis-Nirenberg type problem of the nonlinear Choquard equation
, where Ω is a bounded domain of RN with Lipschitz boundary, λ is a real parameter, N ≥ 3, \(2_\mu ^* = \left( {2N - \mu } \right)/\left( {N - 2} \right)\) is the critical exponent in the sense of the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality.
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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11571317 and 11671364) and Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang (Grant No. LY15A010010). The authors thank the anonymous referees for their useful comments and suggestions which helped to improve the presentation of the paper greatly.
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Gao, F., Yang, M. The Brezis-Nirenberg type critical problem for the nonlinear Choquard equation. Sci. China Math. 61, 1219–1242 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-016-9067-5
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