# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

November 2018, 17(6): 2623-2638. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018124

## Ground states for Kirchhoff-type equations with critical growth

 1 Department of Mathematics, Honghe University, Mengzi, Yunnan 661100, China 2 Department of Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, Beijing 100084, China 3 Department of Mathematics, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030024, China 4 Department of Mathematics, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan 650092, China

Received  January 2017 Revised  July 2017 Published  June 2018

Fund Project: This work is supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11501403; 11461023; 11701322; 11561072) and the Shanxi Province Science Foundation for Youths under grant 2013021001-3 and the Honghe University Doctoral Research Programs (XJ17B11, XJ17B12) and the Yunnan Province Local University (Part) Basic Research Joint Project (2017FH001-013).

In this paper, we study the following Kirchhoff-type equation with critical growth
 $-(a+b\int {_{\mathbb{R}^3}} |\nabla u|^2dx)\triangle u+V(x)u = λ f(x,u)+|u|^4u, \; x \; ∈\mathbb{R}^3,$
where a>0, b>0, λ>0 and f is a continuous superlinear but subcritical nonlinearity. When V and f are asymptotically periodic in x, we prove that the equation has a ground state solution for large λ by Nehari method. Moreover, we regard b as a parameter and obtain a convergence property of the ground state solution as
 $b\searrow 0$
.
Citation: Quanqing Li, Kaimin Teng, Xian Wu. Ground states for Kirchhoff-type equations with critical growth. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2018, 17 (6) : 2623-2638. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018124
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