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November 2018, 38(11): 5389-5413. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2018238

On the concentration of semiclassical states for nonlinear Dirac equations

Xu Zhang ^,

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

^* Corresponding author: Xu Zhang

Received July 2017 Revised December 2017 Published August 2018

Fund Project: The first author is supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2017M611160

In this paper, we study the following nonlinear Dirac equation

$\begin{equation*}-i\varepsilonα·\nabla w+aβ w+V(x)w = g(|w|)w, \ x∈ \mathbb{R}^3, \ {\rm for}\ w∈ H^1(\mathbb R^3, \mathbb C^4), \end{equation*}$

where

$a > 0$

is a constant,

$α = (α_1, α_2, α_3)$

$α_1, α_2, α_3$

and

$β$

are

$4×4$

Pauli-Dirac matrices. Under the assumptions that

$V$

and

$g$

are continuous but are not necessarily of class

$C^1$

, when

$g$

is super-linear growth at infinity we obtain the existence of semiclassical solutions, which converge to the least energy solutions of its limit problem as

$\varepsilon \to 0$

Keywords: Dirac equation, semiclassical solutions, concentration.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q40; Secondary: 49J35.

Citation: Xu Zhang. On the concentration of semiclassical states for nonlinear Dirac equations. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2018, 38 (11) : 5389-5413. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2018238

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[23]	D. Gilbarg and N. Trudinger, Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York, 1997. Google Scholar
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[32]	P. H. Rabinowitz, On a class of nonlinear Schrödinger equations, Z. Angew. Math. Phys., 43 (1992), 270-292. doi: 10.1007/BF00946631. Google Scholar
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[34]	X. Wang, On concentration of positive bound states of nonlinear Schrödinger equations, Comm. Math. Phys., 153 (1993), 229-244. doi: 10.1007/BF02096642. Google Scholar
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