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Existence criteria of ground state solutions for Schrödinger-Poisson systems with a vanishing potential

Sitong Chen 1, , Wennian Huang 2, and  Xianhua Tang 1,,

1. 

School of Mathematics and Statistics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, P.R. China
2. 

School of Mathematics and Statistics, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, Guangxi 541004, P.R.China

* Corresponding author: Xianhua Tang

Received  May 2019 Revised  September 2019 Published  April 2020

Fund Project: This work is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No: 11571370)

In this paper, we consider the following Schrödinger-Poisson system
$ \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\triangle u+u+K(x)\phi(x)u = a(x)|u|^{p-2}u, \ \ \ \ x\in { \mathbb{R}}^{3},\\ -\triangle \phi = K(x)u^2, \ \ \ \ x\in { \mathbb{R}}^{3}, \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} $
where
$ p\in [4,6) $
,
$ a(x)\ge \lim_{|x|\to\infty}a(x) = a_{\infty}>0 $
 and
$ \lim_{|x|\to\infty}K(x) = 0 $
. Lack of any symmetry property of
$ a $
 and
$ K $
, we present some new sufficient conditions to guarantee the existence of a positive ground state solution of above system. Our results extend and complement the ones of [G. Cerami, G. Vaira, J. Differential Equations 248 (2010)] in which
$ p\in (4,6) $
,
$ a $
 and
$ K $
 need to satisfy additional integrability conditions.
Keywords: Schrödinger-Poisson system, Vanishing potential, Ground state solution.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J20; Secondary: 35Q55.
Citation: Sitong Chen, Wennian Huang, Xianhua Tang. Existence criteria of ground state solutions for Schrödinger-Poisson systems with a vanishing potential. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2020339
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X. H. Tang and S. T. Chen, Ground state solutions of Nehari-Pohozaev type for Schrödinger-Poisson problems with general potentials, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 37 (2017), 4973-5002.  doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017214.  Google Scholar

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