In the present paper, we consider the following Kirchhoff type problemwhere a is a positive constant, λ is a positive parameter, V ∈ L N 2 (R N ) is a given nonnegative function and 2 * is the critical exponent. The existence of bounded state solutions for Kirchhoff type problem with critical exponents in the whole R N (N ≥ 5) has never been considered so far. We obtain sufficient conditions on the existence of bounded state solutions in high dimension N ≥ 4, and especially it is the fist time to consider the case when N ≥ 5 in the literature. 129 130 QILIN XIE AND JIANSHE YU (i) N = 4 and λ > S −2 ; (ii) N ≥ 5 and λ > Λ 0 ; then problem (SK * ) has no nontrivial solution.Remark 1.6. Now, we have partially solved the existence of nontrivial solutions for the Kirchhoff type problem (SK * ). When N = 4, it follows from Theorem 1.1 and Theorem 1.5 that problem has at least one nontrivial solution for 0 < λ < S −2 ; and problem has no nontrivial solution for λ > S −2 . We do not know what will happen for λ = S −2 . So does the case when N ≥ 5 and λ = Λ 0 . Because of the limitation of our methods and technique, Theorem 1.3 only obtains nontrivial solutions for problem (SK * ) with Λ 0 − µ < λ < Λ 0 . A natural and interesting question is whether we can establish multiplicity theorems for problem (SK * ) with small positive parameter λ. We guess that the answer to the above problem is positive. The main difficulties when we investigate problem (SK * ) are that for Kirchhoff type problems with critical exponents, it is not easy to verify a range where Palais-Smale condition holds, especially when the energy level may be negative. This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we give the variational setting for our problem and investigate the solutions for the limit equation of (SK * ). After that, we prove that problem (SK * ) can not be solved by minimization on Nehari manifold. At the end of Section 2, we prove our Theorem 1.5 indirectly. In Section 3, by a description of Palais-Smale sequences, we obtain a local compactness result Proposition 3.2 with N = 4 and a global compactness result Proposition 3.3 with N ≥ 5. By a standard argument, we obtain the existence of the bounded state solutions in Section 4. In Section 5, we prove some necessary lemmas, which have been used in our main context.
2.Preliminaries. In this section, we give the variational setting for problem (SK * ) and some basic information on the limit equation of (SK * ). The main works in this paper are considered in the Hilbert space D 1,2 (R N ) = {u ∈ L 2 * (R N ) :
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