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AN IMPROVED RESULT ON GROUND STATE SOLUTIONS OF QUASILINEAR SCHRÖDINGER EQUATIONS WITH SUPER-LINEAR NONLINEARITIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 December 2018

SITONG CHEN*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, PR China email mathsitongchen@163.com
ZU GAO
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, PR China email gaozu7@163.com
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Abstract

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By using variational and some new analytic techniques, we prove the existence of ground state solutions for the quasilinear Schrödinger equation with variable potentials and super-linear nonlinearities. Moreover, we establish a minimax characterisation of the ground state energy. Our result improves and extends the existing results in the literature.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2018 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

Footnotes

This work is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11571370, 11701487 and 11626202) and Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (2016JJ6137).

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