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December  2016, 6(4): 551-593. doi: 10.3934/mcrf.2016016

## Concentrating solitary waves for a class of singularly perturbed quasilinear Schrödinger equations with a general nonlinearity

 1 School of Mathematics and Statistics, South-Central University For Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074 2 Hubei Key Laboratory of Mathematical Sciences and School of Mathematics and Statistics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079

Received  January 2016 Revised  March 2016 Published  October 2016

We are concerned with a class of singularly perturbed quasilinear Schrödinger equations of the following form: $- {\varepsilon ^2}\Delta u - {\varepsilon ^2}\Delta ({u^2})u + V(x)u = h(u),{\text{ }}u > 0{\text{ in }}{\mathbb{R}^N},$ where $\varepsilon$ is a small positive parameter, $N \ge 3$ and the nonlinearity $h$ is of critical growth. We construct a family of positive solutions ${u_\varepsilon } \in {H^1}({\mathbb{R}^N})$ of the above problem which concentrates around local minima of $V$ as $\varepsilon \to 0$ under certain assumptions on $h$. Our result especially solves the above problem in the case where $h(u) \sim \lambda {u^{q - 1}} + {u^{2 \cdot {2^ * } - 1}}{\text{ }}(2 < q \le 4,{\text{ }}\lambda > 0)$ and completes the study made in some recent works in the sense that, in those papers only the case where $h(u) \sim \lambda {u^{q - 1}} + {u^{2 \cdot {2^ * } - 1}}{\text{ }}(4 < q < 2 \cdot {2^ * },{\text{ }}\lambda > 0)$ was considered. Moreover, our main results extend also the arguments used in Byeon and Jeanjean [14], which deal with Schrödinger equations with subcritical nonlinearities, to the quasilinear Schrödinger equations with critical nonlinearities.
Citation: Yi He, Gongbao Li. Concentrating solitary waves for a class of singularly perturbed quasilinear Schrödinger equations with a general nonlinearity. Mathematical Control & Related Fields, 2016, 6 (4) : 551-593. doi: 10.3934/mcrf.2016016
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