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## Existence of solutions for a class of quasilinear Schrödinger equation with a Kirchhoff-type

 School of Mathematics and Statistics, HNP-LAMA, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, China

* Corresponding author

Received  March 2021 Revised  October 2021 Early access December 2021

Fund Project: This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No:11971485) and the NSFC (11871475)

In this paper, we discuss the generalized quasilinear Schrödinger equation with Kirchhoff-type:
 $\left (1\!+\!b\int_{\mathbb{R}^{3}}g^{2}(u)|\nabla u|^{2} dx \right) \left[-\mathrm{div} \left(g^{2}(u)\nabla u\right)\!+\!g(u)g'(u)|\nabla u|^{2}\right] \!+\!V(x)u\! = \!f( u),(\rm P)$
where
 $b>0$
is a parameter,
 $g\in \mathbb{C}^{1}(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R}^{+})$
,
 $V\in \mathbb{C}^{1}(\mathbb{R}^3,\mathbb{R})$
and
 $f\in \mathbb{C}(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R})$
. Under some "Berestycki-Lions type assumptions" on the nonlinearity
 $f$
which are almost necessary, we prove that problem
 $(\rm P)$
has a nontrivial solution
 $\bar{u}\in H^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{3})$
such that
 $\bar{v} = G(\bar{u})$
is a ground state solution of the following problem
 $-\left(1+b\int_{\mathbb{R}^{3}} |\nabla v|^{2} dx \right) \triangle v+V(x)\frac{G^{-1}(v)}{g(G^{-1}(v))} = \frac{f(G^{-1}(v))}{g(G^{-1}(v))},(\rm \bar{P})$
where
 $G(t): = \int_{0}^{t} g(s) ds$
. We also give a minimax characterization for the ground state solution
 $\bar{v}$
.
Citation: Die Hu, Xianhua Tang, Qi Zhang. Existence of solutions for a class of quasilinear Schrödinger equation with a Kirchhoff-type. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2022010
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