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June  2020, 19(6): 3429-3444. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020059

Existence results for quasilinear Schrödinger equations with a general nonlinearity

Haidong Liu 1, and  Leiga Zhao 2,3,,

1. 

College of Mathematics, Physics and Information Engineering, Jiaxing University, Zhejiang 314001, China
2. 

Department of Mathematics, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
3. 

School of Mathematics and Statistics, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China

*Corresponding author

Received  January 2019 Revised  July 2019 Published  March 2020

Fund Project: H. Liu is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.11701220, No. 11926334, No.11926335). L. Zhao is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.11671026, No.11771385) and Beijing Municipal Commission of Education KZ202010028048

Consider the quasilinear Schrödinger equation
$ \begin{equation*} \label{eq0.1}-\Delta u+V(x)u- \Delta(u^2)u = h(u)\ \ \mbox{in}\ {\mathbb{R}}^N,\tag{A} \end{equation*} $
where
$ N\geq 3 $
,
$ V: {\mathbb{R}}^N\to{\mathbb{R}} $
 and
$ h: {\mathbb{R}}\to{\mathbb{R}} $
 are functions. Under some general assumptions on
$ V $
 and
$ h $
, we establish two existence results for problem (A) by using variational methods. The main novelty is that, unlike most other papers on this problem, we do not assume the nonlinear term to be 4-superlinear at infinity.
Keywords: Quasilinear Schrödinger equation, well potential, radial potential, general nonlinearity.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J10; Secondary: 35J20, 35J60.
Citation: Haidong Liu, Leiga Zhao. Existence results for quasilinear Schrödinger equations with a general nonlinearity. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2020, 19 (6) : 3429-3444. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020059
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W. A. Strauss, Existence of solitary waves in higher dimensions, Commun. Math. Phys., 55 (1977), 149-162.  doi: 10.1007/BF01626517.  Google Scholar

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