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New Super-quadratic Conditions for Asymptotically Periodic Schrödinger Equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Xianhua Tang*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, P.R. China. e-mail: tangxh@mail.csu.edu.cn
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We study the semilinear Schrödinger equation

$$\left\{ _{u\,\,\in \,\,{{H}^{1}}({{\mathbf{R}}^{N}}),}^{-\Delta \,u+V(x)u=f(x,u),\,\,\,\,\,x\in \,\,{{\mathbf{R}}^{N}},} \right.$$

where $f$ is a superlinear, subcritical nonlinearity. It focuses on the case where $V(x)={{V}_{0}}(x)+{{V}_{1}}(x)$, ${{V}_{0}}\in C({{\mathbf{R}}^{N}}),\,{{V}_{0}}(x)$ is 1-periodic in each of ${{x}_{1}},{{x}_{2}},...,{{x}_{N}}$, $\sup [\sigma (-\Delta +{{V}_{0}})\,\cap \,(-\infty ,0)]<0<$$\inf [\sigma (-\Delta +{{V}_{0}})\cap (0,\infty )],\,{{V}_{1}}\in C({{\mathbf{R}}^{N}})$, and ${{\lim }_{|x|\to \infty }}\,{{V}_{1}}(x)=0$. A new super-quadratic condition is obtained that is weaker than some well-known results.

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