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Nodal solutions for a quasilinear Schrödinger equation with critical nonlinearity and non-square diffusion

Yinbin Deng 1, , Yi Li 2, and  Xiujuan Yan 3,

1. 

Department of Mathematics, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan 430079
2. 

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435, USA
3. 

Department of Mathematics, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, China

Received  June 2015 Revised  June 2015 Published  September 2015

This paper is concerned with a type of quasilinear Schrödinger equations of the form \begin{eqnarray} -\Delta u+V(x)u-p\Delta(|u|^{2p})|u|^{2p-2}u=\lambda|u|^{q-2}u+|u|^{2p2^{*}-2}u, \end{eqnarray} where $\lambda>0, N\ge3, 4p < q < 2p2^*, 2^*=\frac{2N}{N-2}, 1< p < +\infty$. For any given $k \ge 0$, by using a change of variables and Nehari minimization, we obtain a sign-changing minimizer with $k$ nodes.
Keywords: radial solutions, Quasilinear Schrödinger equations, nodal solutions..
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35J20, 35J62, 35Q5.
Citation: Yinbin Deng, Yi Li, Xiujuan Yan. Nodal solutions for a quasilinear Schrödinger equation with critical nonlinearity and non-square diffusion. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2015, 14 (6) : 2487-2508. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.2487
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[8]

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[9]

D. Cao and X. Zhu, On the existence and nodal character of semilinear elliptic equations, Acta. Math. Sci., 8 (1988), 345-359.  Google Scholar

[10]

X. L. Chen and R. N. Sudan, Necessary and sufficient conditions for self-focusing of short ultraintense laser pulse in underdense plasma, Phys. Rev. Lett., 70 (1993), 2082-2085. Google Scholar

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G. Cerami, S. Solimini and M. Struwe, Some existence results for superlinear elliptic boundary value problems involving critical exponents, J. Func. Anal., 69 (1986), 289-306. doi: 10.1016/0022-1236(86)90094-7.  Google Scholar

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Xiang-Qing Liu, Jia-Quan Liu and Zhi Qiang Wang, Quasilinear elliptic equations with critical growth via pertubation method, Journal Differential Equations, 254 (2013), 102-124 doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2012.09.006.  Google Scholar

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J. Liu, Y. Wang and Z. Wang, Soliton solutions for quasilinear Schrödinger equations. II, J. Differential Equations, 187 (2003), 473-493. doi: 10.1016/S0022-0396(02)00064-5.  Google Scholar

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J. Liu, Y. Wang and Z. Wang, Solutions for quasilinear Schrödinger equations via the Nehari method, Comm. Partial Differential Equations, 29 (2004), 879-901. doi: 10.1081/PDE-120037335.  Google Scholar

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A. Moameni, Existence of soliton solutions for a quasilinear Schrödinger equation involving critical exponent in $\R^N$, J. Differential Equations, 229 (2006), 570-587. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2006.07.001.  Google Scholar

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A. Moameni, Soliton solutions for quasilinear Schrodinger equations involving supercritical exponent in $\R^N$, Commun. Pure Appl. Anal., 7 (2007), 89-105. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2008.7.89.  Google Scholar

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M. Poppenberg, K. Schmitt and Z. Wang, On the existence of soliton solutions to quasilinear Schrödinger equations, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 14 (2002), 329-344. doi: 10.1007/s005260100105.  Google Scholar

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B. Ritchie, Relativistic self-focusing and channel formation in laser-plasma interactions, Phys. Rev. E, 50 (1994), 687-689. Google Scholar

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Y. Shen and Y. Wang, Soliton solutions for generalized quasilinear Schrodinger equations, Nonlinear Anal. TMA., 80 (2013), 194-201. doi: 10.1016/j.na.2012.10.005.  Google Scholar

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