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July  2015, 35(7): 2921-2948. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.2921

## Nodal solutions of 2-D critical nonlinear Schrödinger equations with potentials vanishing at infinity

 1 Department of Mathematics & IMS, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China, China

Received  May 2013 Revised  October 2014 Published  January 2015

We will focus on the existence and concentration of nodal solutions to the following critical nonlinear Schrödinger equations in $\Bbb R^2$ $$-\epsilon^2\triangle u_{\epsilon}+V(x)u_{\epsilon}=K(x) |u_{\epsilon}|^{p-2}u_{\epsilon}e^{\alpha_{0}|u_{\epsilon}| ^{2}},\quad u_{\epsilon}\in H^1(\Bbb R^2),$$ where $p>2$, $\alpha_{0}>0$, $V(x), K(x)>0$, and $\epsilon>0$ is a small constant. For the positive potential $V(x)$ which decays at infinity like $(1+|x|)^{-\alpha}$ with $0 < \alpha \le 2$, we will show that a nodal solution with one positive and one negative peaks exists, and concentrates around local minimum points of the related ground energy function $G(\xi)$ of the Schrödinger equation $-\triangle u+V(\xi)u=K(\xi) |u|^{p-2}ue^{\alpha_{0}|u|^{2}}$.
Citation: Mingwen Fei, Huicheng Yin. Nodal solutions of 2-D critical nonlinear Schrödinger equations with potentials vanishing at infinity. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2015, 35 (7) : 2921-2948. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.2921
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