Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 September 2023
The paper deals with the existence of positive solutions with prescribed $L^2$ norm for the Schrödinger equation
or $\mathbb {R}^N\setminus \Omega$
is a compact set, $\rho >0$
, $V\ge 0$
(also $V\equiv 0$
is allowed), $p\in (2,2+\frac 4 N)$
. The existence of a positive solution $\bar u$
is proved when $V$
verifies a suitable decay assumption (Dρ), or if $\|V\|_{L^q}$
is small, for some $q\ge \frac N2$
($q>1$
if $N=2$
). No smallness assumption on $V$
is required if the decay assumption (Dρ) is fulfilled. There are no assumptions on the size of $\mathbb {R}^N\setminus \Omega$
. The solution $\bar u$
is a bound state and no ground state solution exists, up to the autonomous case $V\equiv 0$
and $\Omega =\mathbb {R}^N$
.