Ground states of nonlinear Schrödinger equations with fractional Laplacians

Zupei Shen; Zhiqing Han; Qinqin Zhang

doi:10.3934/dcdss.2019136

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2019, Volume 12, Issue 7: 2115-2125. Doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2019136

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Ground states of nonlinear Schrödinger equations with fractional Laplacians

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Center for Applied Mathematics, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510405, China
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School of Mathematical Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China

* Corresponding author: Qinqin Zhang
* Corresponding author: Qinqin Zhang

Received: December 2017

Revised: April 2018

Published: June 2019

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation (11701114, 11471085) and the program for Changjiang scholars and Innovative Recearch Team in univesity (Grant No.IRT1226).

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Inspired by Schaftingen [15], we develop a symmetric variational principle for the field equation involving a fractional Laplacians

$ \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{aligned} (-\Delta)^\alpha u+u& = f(u), x\in\mathbb{R}^N,\\ u(x)&\geq 0. \end{aligned} \right. \end{equation*} $

As an application, we prove the existence of symmetric ground states in the fractional Sobolev space $ H^\alpha (\mathbb{R}^N) $. These results improve some known ones in the literature. An example is also given to illustrate our results.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 58F15, 58F17; Secondary: 53C35.

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