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July  2016, 15(4): 1125-1138. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2016.15.1125

Nodal solutions for nonlinear Schrödinger equations with decaying potential

Zuji Guo 1,

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School of Mathematics, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China

Received  November 2014 Revised  June 2015 Published  April 2016

This paper concerns the following nonlinear Schrödinger equations: \begin{eqnarray} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \displaystyle -\varepsilon^2\Delta u +V(x)u= |u|^{p_+-2}u^++|u|^{p_--2}u^-,\ x\in\mathbb{R}^N,\\ \lim\limits_{|x|\rightarrow\infty}u(x)=0, \\ \end{array} \right. \end{eqnarray} where $N\geq 3$ and $2 < p_{\pm} < \frac{2N}{N-2}$. We obtain nodal solutions for the above nonlinear Schrödinger equations with decaying and vanishing potential at infinity, i.e., $\lim\limits_{|x|\rightarrow\infty}V(x)=0$.
Keywords: nonlinear Schrödinger equations, nodal solution, Harnack inequality, vanishing potential., Hardy inequality.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J20; Secondary: 35J6.
Citation: Zuji Guo. Nodal solutions for nonlinear Schrödinger equations with decaying potential. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2016, 15 (4) : 1125-1138. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2016.15.1125
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M. Willem, Minimax Theorems,, Birkh\, (1996).  doi: 10.1007/978-1-4612-4146-1.  Google Scholar

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