Potential well and multiplicity of solutions for nonlinear Dirac equations

Yu Chen; Yanheng Ding; Tian Xu

doi:10.3934/cpaa.2020028

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2020, Volume 19, Issue 1: 587-607. Doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020028

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Potential well and multiplicity of solutions for nonlinear Dirac equations

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School of Mathematical Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Laboratory of Mathematics and Complex System, Ministry of Education, 100875 Beijing, China
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Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190 Beijing, China
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Center for Applied Mathematics, Tianjin University, 300072 Tianjin, China

Received: September 2018

Revised: September 2018

Published: July 2019

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In this paper we consider the semi-classical solutions of a massive Dirac equations in presence of a critical growth nonlinearity

$ -i\hbar \sum\limits_{k = 1}^{3}\alpha_k\partial_k w+a\beta w+V(x)w = f(|w|)w. $

Under a local condition imposed on the potential $ V $, we relate the number of solutions with the topology of the set where the potential attains its minimum. In the proofs we apply variational methods, penalization techniques and Ljusternik-Schnirelmann theory.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: 35Q40, 49J35.

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