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An eigenvalue problem for nonlinear Schrödinger-Poisson system with steep potential well

Kuan-Hsiang Wang

Department of Applied Mathematics, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan

Received  October 2020 Revised  January 2021 Published  April 2021 Early access  March 2021

Fund Project: The author is supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (Grant No. 108-2115-M-390-007-MY2,108-2811-M-390-500)

In this paper, we study an eigenvalue problem for Schrödinger-Poisson system with indefinite nonlinearity and potential well as follows:
$ \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u+\mu V(x)u+K(x)\phi u = \lambda f(x)u+g(x)|u|^{p-2}u\ \ &\mbox{in}\ \ \mathbb{R}^3, \\ -\Delta \phi = K(x)u^2\ \ &\mbox{in}\ \ \mathbb{R}^3, \end{cases} \end{equation*} $
where
$ 4\leq p<6 $
, the parameters
$ \mu, \lambda>0 $
,
$ V\in C(\mathbb{R}^3) $
 is a potential well with the bottom
$ \overline\Omega: = \{x\in\mathbb{R}^3 : V(x) = 0\} $
, and the functions
$ f $
 and
$ g $
 are allowed to be sign-changing. By establishing an approximate estimate between the positive principal eigenvalue of
$ -\Delta u+\mu V(x)u = \lambda f(x)u $
 in
$ \mathbb{R}^3 $
 and the positive principal eigenvalue
$ \lambda_1(f_{\Omega}) $
 of
$ -\Delta u = \lambda f_{\Omega}(x)u $
 in
$ \Omega $
, we prove that at least a positive solution exists in
$ 0<\lambda\leq\lambda_1(f_{\Omega}) $
 while at least two positive solutions exist in
$ \lambda>\lambda_1(f_{\Omega}) $
 and near
$ \lambda_1(f_{\Omega}) $
, where
$ f_{\Omega}: = f|_{\Omega} $
. The results are obtained via variational method and steep potential. Furthermore, we also study the concentration of solutions as
$ \mu\to\infty $
 and the decay rate of solutions at infinity.
Keywords: Schrödinger-Poisson system, eigenvalue problem, steep potential well, mountain pass theory, variational methods.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35B09, 35B40; Secondary: 35J20, 35J60.
Citation: Kuan-Hsiang Wang. An eigenvalue problem for nonlinear Schrödinger-Poisson system with steep potential well. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2021, 20 (4) : 1497-1519. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2021030
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[2]

A. Ambrosetti and P. H. Rabinowitz, Dual variational methods in critical point theory and applications, J. Funct. Anal., 14 (1973), 349-381.  doi: 10.1016/0022-1236(73)90051-7.  Google Scholar

[3]

A. Ambrosetti and D. Ruiz, Multiple bound states for the Schrödinger-Poisson problem, Commun. Contemp. Math., 10 (2008), 391-404.  doi: 10.1142/S021919970800282X.  Google Scholar

[4]

A. Azzollini and A. Pomponio, Ground state solutions for the nonlinear Schrödinger-Maxwell equations, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 345 (2008), 90-108.  doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2008.03.057.  Google Scholar

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[7]

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M. Struwe, Variational Methods. Applications to Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Hamiltonian Systems, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1990. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-02624-3.  Google Scholar

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Z. Shen and Z. Han, Multiple solutions for a class of Schrödinger-Poisson system with indefinite nonlinearity, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 426 (2015), 839-854. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2015.01.071.  Google Scholar

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M. Willem, Minimax Theorems, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1996. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4612-4146-1.  Google Scholar

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Y. Ye and C. Tang, Existence and multiplicity of solutions for Schrödinger-Poisson equations with sign-changing potential, Calc. Var. Partial Differ. Equ., 53 (2015), 383-411. doi: 10.1007/s00526-014-0753-6.  Google Scholar

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L. Zhao, H. Liu and F. Zhao, Existence and concentration of solutions for the Schrödinger-Poisson equations with steep well potential, J. Differ. Equ., 255 (2013), 1-23. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2013.03.005.  Google Scholar

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