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Quasilinear Scalar Field Equations Involving Critical Sobolev Exponents and Potentials Vanishing at Infinity

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2018

Athanasios N. Lyberopoulos
Athanasios N. Lyberopoulos*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean, 83200 Karlovassi, Samos, Greece ([email protected])
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Abstract

We are concerned with the existence of positive weak solutions, as well as the existence of bound states (i.e. solutions in W1, p (ℝN)), for quasilinear scalar field equations of the form

$$ - \Delta _pu + V(x) \vert u \vert ^{p - 2}u = K(x) \vert u \vert ^{q - 2}u + \vert u \vert ^{p^ * - 2}u,\qquad x \in {\open R}^N,$$
where Δpu: = div(|∇ u|p−2∇u), 1 < p < N, p*: = Np/(N − p) is the critical Sobolev exponent, q ∈ (p, p*), while V(·) and K(·) are non-negative continuous potentials that may decay to zero as |x| → ∞ but are free from any integrability or symmetry assumptions.

Keywords

p-Laplaciannonlinear Schrödinger equationcritical Sobolev exponentsdecaying potentialspenalization methodlocal Palais–Smale condition

MSC classification

Primary: 35J92: Quasilinear elliptic equations with $p$-Laplacian
Secondary: 35Q55: NLS-like equations (nonlinear Schrödinger) 35Q74: PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids 35B33: Critical exponents 35J20: Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations
Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 61 , Issue 3 , August 2018 , pp. 705 - 733
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 2018 

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