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September  2021, 41(9): 4105-4123. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2021030

On multiplicity of semi-classical solutions to nonlinear Dirac equations of space-dimension $ n $

Yanheng Ding , , Xiaojing Dong and  Qi Guo

Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China

* Corresponding author: dingyh@math.ac.cn

Received  October 2020 Revised  December 2020 Published  January 2021

Fund Project: The authors are supported by NSFC 11871242, 11801545

In this paper, we study multiplicity of semi-classical solutions to nonlinear Dirac equations of space-dimension
$ n $
:
$ \begin{equation*} -i\hbar\sum\limits_{k = 1}^n \alpha_k \partial_k u+a\beta u+V(x)u = f(x,|u|)u,\; \text{in}\ \mathbb{R}^n, \end{equation*} $
where
$ n\geq 2 $
,
$ \hbar>0 $
 is a small parameter,
$ a>0 $
 is a constant, and
$ f $
 describes the self-interaction which is either subcritical:
$ W(x)|u|^{p-2} $
, or critical:
$ W_{1}(x)|u|^{p-2}+W_{2}(x)|u|^{2^*-2} $
, with
$ p\in (2,2^*), 2^* = \frac{2n}{n-1} $
. The number of solutions obtained depending on the ratio of
$ \min V $
 and
$ \liminf\limits_{|x|\rightarrow \infty} V(x) $
, as well as
$ \max W $
 and
$ \limsup\limits_{|x|\rightarrow \infty} W(x) $
 for the subcritical case and
$ \max W_{j} $
 and
$ \limsup\limits_{|x|\rightarrow \infty} W_{j}(x), j = 1,2, $
 for the critical case.
Keywords: Nonlinear Dirac equation, Semi-classical solutions, Multiplicity, Variational methods, subcritical and critical nonlinearity.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q40; Secondary: 49J35.
Citation: Yanheng Ding, Xiaojing Dong, Qi Guo. On multiplicity of semi-classical solutions to nonlinear Dirac equations of space-dimension $ n $. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2021, 41 (9) : 4105-4123. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2021030
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Y. Ding, Q. Guo and T. Xu, Concentration of semi-classical states for nonlinear dirac equations of space-dimension $n$, Minimax Theory Appl., 6 (2021). Google Scholar

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Y. Ding and T. Xu, Localized concentration of semi-classical states for nonlinear Dirac equations, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 216 (2015), 415-447.  doi: 10.1007/s00205-014-0811-4.  Google Scholar

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[26]

R. Finkelstein, C. Fronsdal and P. Kaus, Nonlinear spinor field, Physical Review., 103 (1956), 1571-1579.   Google Scholar

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A. Grünrock and H. Pecher, Global solutions for the dirac klein gordon system in two space dimensions, Communications in Partial Differential Equations, 35 (2010), 89-112.  doi: 10.1080/03605300903296306.  Google Scholar

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F. Merle, Existence of stationary states for nonlinear Dirac equations, J. Differential Equations, 74 (1988), 50-68.  doi: 10.1016/0022-0396(88)90018-6.  Google Scholar

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