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August  2015, 35(8): 3857-3877. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.3857

## Positive high energy solution for Kirchhoff equation in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ with superlinear nonlinearities via Nehari-Pohožaev manifold

 1 College of Science, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430065, China

Received  June 2014 Revised  December 2014 Published  February 2015

In this paper, we study the following nonlinear problem of Kirchhoff type: $$\label{(0.1)} \left\{% \begin{array}{ll} -\left(a+b\int\limits_{\mathbb{R}^3}|\nabla u|^2\right)\Delta u+V(x)u=f(u), & \hbox{x\in \mathbb{R}^3}, \\ u>0, & \hbox{x\in \mathbb{R}^3}, (0.1) \\ \end{array}% \right.$$ where $a,$ $b>0$ are constants, $V:\mathbb{R}^3\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ and $f(t)$ is subcritical and superlinear at infinity. Under certain assumptions on non-constant potential $V$, we prove the existence of positive high energy solutions by using a linking argument with a barycenter map restricted on a Nehari-Pohožaev type manifold.
Our main result has solved Kirchhoff equation (0.1) with superlinear nonlinearities, which has not been studied, and can be viewed as a partial extension of a recent result of He and Zou in [9] concerning Kirchhoff equations with 4-superlinear nonlinearities.
Citation: Hongyu Ye. Positive high energy solution for Kirchhoff equation in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ with superlinear nonlinearities via Nehari-Pohožaev manifold. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2015, 35 (8) : 3857-3877. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.3857
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