Standing waves for a class of fractional p‐Laplacian equations with a general critical nonlinearity

In this paper, we concern with the following fractional p‐Laplacian equation with critical Sobolev exponent where ε > 0 is a small parameter,  λ > 0 , N is a positive integer, and N > ps with s ∈ (0, 1) fixed, with μ > p , it is difficult to obtain the boundedness of Palais‐Smale sequence, which is important to prove the existence of positive solutions. In order to overcome the above difficulty, we introduce a penalization method of fractional p‐Laplacian type.