We study the existence, nonexistence and qualitative properties of the solutions to the problem $$\begin{aligned} ({\mathcal {P}}) \quad \quad \left\{ \begin{aligned} (-\Delta )^s u -\theta \frac{u}{|x|^{2s}}&=u^p - u^q \quad \text {in }\,\, {\mathbb {R}}^N\\ u&> 0 \quad \text {in }\,\, {\mathbb {R}}^N\\ u&\in {\dot{H}}^s({\mathbb {R}}^N)\cap L^{q+1}({\mathbb {R}}^N), \end{aligned} \right. \end{aligned}$$
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, $$\theta \in (0, \Lambda _{N,s})$$
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is the sharp constant in the fractional Hardy inequality. For qualitative properties of the solutions, we mean both the radial symmetry, that is obtained by using the moving plane method in a nonlocal setting on the whole $$\mathbb {R}^N$$
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