Nonlinear Dirichlet problem for the nonlocal anisotropic operator L_K

In this paper we study an equation driven by a nonlocal anisotropic operator with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. We find at least three non trivial solutions: one positive, one negative and one of unknown sign, using variational methods and Morse theory. We present some results about regularity of solutions such as L^∞ bound and Hopf’s lemma, for the latter we first consider a non negative nonlinearity and then a strictly negative one. Moreover, we prove that, for the corresponding functional, local minimizers with respect to a C^0 -topology weighted with a suitable power of the distance from the boundary are actually local minimizers in the X(Ω)-topology.