Abstract
We study the existence of positive solutions to the following Kirchhoff type equation with vanishing potential and general nonlinearity:
where \(\varepsilon >0\) is a small parameter, \(a,b>0\) are constants and the potential V can vanish, i.e., the zero set of V, \(\mathcal {Z}:=\{x\in \mathbb {R}^3|V(x)=0\}\) is non-empty. In our case, the method of Nehari manifold does not work any more. We first make a truncation of the nonlinearity and prove the existence of solutions for the equation with truncated nonlinearity, then by elliptic estimates, we prove that the solution of truncated equation is just the solution of our original problem for sufficiently small \(\varepsilon >0\).
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1 Introduction
In this paper, we study the existence of positive solutions for Kirchhoff type equations with vanishing potentials and general nonlinearity:
where \(\varepsilon >0\) is a small parameter, \(a,b>0\) are constants. We assume that the potential V(x) satisfies the following conditions:
- (V1)
\(V\in C(\mathbb {R}^3,\mathbb {R})\), \(V(x)\ge 0\), and \(V_{\infty }:=\liminf \limits _{|x|\rightarrow \infty }V(x)>0\).
- (V2)
The zero set of V, \(\mathcal {Z}:=\{x\in \mathbb {R}^3|V(x)=0\}\) is non-empty. Without loss of generality, we assume that \(0\in \mathcal {Z}\).
In recent years, the elliptic Kirchhoff type equations have been studied extensively by many researchers. The problem is related to the stationary analogue of the equation
proposed by Kirchhoff [20] as an extension of the classical D’Alembert’s wave equation for free vibrations of elastic strings, Kirchhoff’s model takes into account the changes in length of the string produced by transverse vibrations. Several interesting existence and uniqueness results can be found in [3, 22,23,24, 26, 35,36,37] etc.
On the other hand, if \(a=1\), \(b=0\), \(\mathbb {R}^3\) replaced by \(\mathbb {R}^N, N\ge 1\) in (1.1), it reduces to the well-known Schrödinger equation
which has been paid much attention after the celebrated work of Floer and Weinstein [16]. For vanishing potentials in (1.3), we first point out the papers [8, 9]. In [8], Byeon and Wang found many interesting results with vanishing potential V. For instance, they show that there exists a standing wave (solution) which is trapped in a neighborhood of isolated zero points of V and whose amplitude tends to 0 as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0\); moreover, depending on the local behavior of the potential function V near the zero points, the limiting profiles of the standing wave solutions are shown to exhibit quite different characteristic features. In [9], they consider a more general nonlinearity and vanishing potential. This type of results for Schrödinger type equations have been studied extensively over the years. Before [8, 9] there had been some earlier works along this line such as [4, 5], in which equations with a large parameter were considered, but a simple scaling taken to the equations could convert them to a similar case as of (1.3). After [8, 9], there are also many papers closely related to the subject. In [2], the authors studied nonlinear Schrödinger equations with vanishing and decaying potentials. In [10], radially symmetric and vanishing potentials were considered. In [7, 11,12,13], multi-bump standing waves with critical frequency for nonlinear Schrödinger equations were studied. For more references about Schrödinger equations, we refer to [1, 6, 8, 9, 14, 25, 31,32,33] and references therein.
Recently, many authors studied the existence and concentration behavior of ground states for Kirchhoff type equations in \(\mathbb {R}^3\). In [18], He and Zou studied (1.1) with \(\inf \nolimits _{x\in \mathbb {R}^3} V(x)>0\) and subcritical nonlinearity. In [30], Wang et al. treated (1.1) with \(\inf \nolimits _{x\in \mathbb {R}^3}V(x)>0\) and critical growth. In [15], Figueiredo et al. obtained the existence and concentration of positive solutions for (1.1) with \(\inf \nolimits _{x\in \mathbb {R}^3} V(x)>0\) and the almost optimal Berestycki–Lions type nonlinearity. In [27], Sun and Zhang investigated the uniqueness of positive ground state solutions for Kirchhoff type equations with constant coefficients and then studied the existence and concentration behaviour of Kirchhoff type problems in \(\mathbb {R}^3\) with competing potentials. In [28], Sun and Zhang investigated the existence and asymptotic behaviour of the positive ground state solutions to Kirchhoff type equations with vanishing potentials. For more results, we refer to [19, 21, 29] etc.
In this paper, motivated by [9], we consider a more general nonlinearity than that in [28], i.e., we assume that \(f:\mathbb {R}\rightarrow \mathbb {R}^+\) is continuous and satisfies
- (f1)
\(\lim \limits _{t\rightarrow 0^+}\frac{f(t)}{t}=0\).
- (f2)
There exists \(4<\mu <6\) such that \(\liminf \limits _{t\rightarrow 0^+}\frac{f(t)}{t^{\mu -1}}>0\).
- (f3)
\(0<\mu F(t)\le tf(t)\) for \(t>0\) where \(\mu\) is defined in (f2) and \(F(t)=\int _{0}^{t}f(s)ds\).
Since we look for positive solutions of (1.1), we assume that \(f(t)=0\) for \(t\le 0\). We have the following result:
Theorem 1.1
Suppose that (V1), (V2), (f1)–(f3) hold. Then for sufficiently small\(\varepsilon >0\), there exists a positive solution \(v_{\varepsilon }\)of (1.1)which satisfies
Remark 1.2
Our assumption on f is more general than that in [27]. Actually, our nonlinearity here can be supercritical. Let \(f(t)=t^{\mu -1}+t^{q-1}\) for \(t\ge 0\) where \(q>6\). Then
and
which implies that \(f(t)=t^{\mu -1}+t^{q-1}\) satisfies (f1),(f2) and (f3).
The paper is organized as follows. In Sect. 2 we give some preliminary results and in Sect. 3 we give the proof of Theorem 1.1.
2 Preliminaries
First let \(u(x)=v(\varepsilon x)\), then the Eq. (1.1) becomes the following equivalent equation
Let \(E_\varepsilon :=\{u\in H^1(\mathbb {R}^3):{\int _{\mathbb {R}^3}}{V(\varepsilon x)}u^2<+\infty \}\) be the Hilbert subspace of \(H^1(\mathbb {R}^3)\) with the norm
For any set \(A\subset \mathbb {R}^3\), we define
By (V1), we can choose \(d>0\) such that \(\liminf \limits _{|x|\rightarrow \infty }V(x)\ge 2d\). Then there exists \(D>0\) such that \(V(\varepsilon x)\ge d\), for \(|x|\ge \varepsilon ^{-1}D.\) Now we make a truncation of the nonlinearity f in (2.1). Define
where \(\mu\) is defined in (f2). Since \(\mu \int _{0}^{1}f(s)ds\le f(1)\), we know that for \(t>0\),
Let \(\tilde{F}(t):=\int _{0}^{t}\tilde{f}(s)ds\). Now we define a function \(g:\mathbb {R}^3\times \mathbb {R}^+\rightarrow \mathbb {R}^+\) by
where
From above we know that for sufficiently small \(t>0\), \(g(x,t)\equiv f(t)\).
Now we define the functional \(I_\varepsilon :E_\varepsilon \rightarrow \mathbb {R}\) by
where \(G(x,t)=\int _{0}^{t}g(x,s)ds\). Then we have that \(I_\varepsilon \in C^1(E_\varepsilon ,\mathbb {R})\) and we want to show that the critical point of \(I_\varepsilon\) on \(E_\varepsilon\) is just the solution of (2.1) for sufficiently small \(\varepsilon >0\), .
First we verify the mountain pass geometry of \(I_\varepsilon\).
Lemma 2.1
For any fixed \(\varepsilon >0\) , there exists \(r_0>0\) such that
Proof
By (f1) and the definition of \(\tilde{f}(t)\), we know
where \(h>0\) is arbitrary, \(C_h>0\) is a constant dependent on h. Thus
As the embedding \(E_\varepsilon \hookrightarrow L^p\)(\(2\le p\le 6\)) is continuous, there exist constants \(C_1,C_2>0\) such that
Choose \(h>0\) sufficiently small such that \(\frac{h}{2}C_1<\frac{1}{4}\), then
Since \(\mu >2\), from above we know there exists \(r_0>0\) such that
\(\square\)
Lemma 2.2
Let \(\phi \in C_0^{\infty }(M_{\frac{1}{\varepsilon }})\)be fixed, where \(M:=\{x\in \mathbb {R}^3:|x|\le D\}\), \(\phi \ge 0\)and\(\phi \not \equiv 0\). Then for sufficiently large \(t>0\), \(I_{\varepsilon }(t\phi )<0\).
Proof
Notice that
then by \(4<\mu <6\) we know that for sufficiently large \(t>0\), \(I_{\varepsilon }(t\phi )<0\). \(\square\)
Now we show that \(I_{\varepsilon }\) satisfies (PS) condition.
Lemma 2.3
For each fixed \(\varepsilon >0\) , \(I_{\varepsilon }\) satisfies (PS) condition.
Proof
Let \(\{u_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty }\subset E_\varepsilon\) satisfy that \(I_\varepsilon (u_n)\) is bounded and \(\lim \limits _{n\rightarrow \infty }I_{\varepsilon }'(u_n)=0\). Then there exist \(C_1,C_2>0\) such that for sufficiently large \(n>0\),
By 2.2, we know that \(\{u_n\}\) is bounded in \(E_\varepsilon\). So if necessary to a subsequence, there exists \(u_0\in E_\varepsilon\) such that
Now we show that \(\{u_n\}\) converges to \(\{u_0\}\) strongly in \(E_\varepsilon\). It is sufficient to prove that for any \(\delta >0\), there exists \(R>0\) such that
where \(B_{R}(0)\) is a ball centered at zero and with radius R and let \(M_{\frac{1}{\varepsilon }} \subset B_{R}(0)\).
Choose \(\varphi _R\in C_0^{\infty }(\mathbb {R}^3)\) such that \(\varphi _R\equiv 0\) in \(B_{R}(0)\), \(\varphi _R \equiv 1\) in \(B_{2R}^c(0)\), \(0\le \varphi _R\le 1\), and \(|\nabla \varphi _R|\le \frac{2}{R}\). Thus for any \(R>0\), we have
Then for \(R\ge D/\varepsilon\),
It yields
By (2.2), we have
Then by the boundedness of \(\int _{\mathbb {R}^3}{|\nabla u_n|}^{2}\), we have constant \(C>0\) such that
which implies (2.3). \(\square\)
In this paper we will use Theorem 4.1 of [17]. We give the theorem here for readers’ convenience:
Theorem 2.4
Suppose \(y\in \mathbb {R}^n\) , \(a_{ij}\in L^{\infty }(B_1(y))\) and \(c\in L^q(B_1(y))\) for some \(q>n/2\) satisfy the following assumptions
for some positive constants \(\lambda\) and \(\Lambda\) . Suppose that \(u\in H^1(B_1(y))\) is a subsolution in the following sense
If \(f\in L^q(B_1(y))\) , then \(u^+\in L_{loc}^{\infty }(B_1(y))\) . Moreover, there holds for any \(\theta \in (0,1)\) and any \(p>0\)
where \(C=C(n,\lambda ,\Lambda ,p,q)\) is a positive constant.
3 Proof of Theorem 1.1
From Lemma 2.1, Lemma 2.2 and Lemma 2.3, we know that \(I_{\varepsilon }\) satisfies mountain pass geometry and (PS) condition. Now we define
where
Then by the general minimax theorem(Theorem 2.8, [34]), we can get a sequence \(\{u_n\}\subset E_\varepsilon\) such that
Since \(I_{\varepsilon }\) satisfies (PS) condition, thus there exists \(u_\varepsilon \in E_\varepsilon\) such that \(u_n \rightarrow u_\varepsilon\) in \(E_\varepsilon\). Then \(u_\varepsilon\) is the critical point of \(I_\varepsilon\) and \(I_\varepsilon (u_\varepsilon )=c_\varepsilon\). Furthermore, \(u_\varepsilon\) satisfies
By the elliptic regularity theory and maximum principle, we know that \(u_\varepsilon\) is continuous and \(u_\varepsilon >0\). Now we show that \(\Vert u_\varepsilon \Vert _{L^{\infty }}\rightarrow 0\) as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0\), which implies that for sufficiently small \(\varepsilon >0\), \(u_\varepsilon\) is just the positive solution of (2.1) since \(g(x,t)\equiv f(t)\) for sufficiently small \(t>0\). Then we equivalently prove Theorem 1.1.
Now we estimate the limit of \(c_\varepsilon\) as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0^+\):
Lemma 3.1
\(\limsup \limits _{\varepsilon \rightarrow 0^+}c_\varepsilon =0.\)
Proof
By (f2) and (f3), there exists \(C>0\) such that \(\tilde{F}(t)\ge Ct^{\mu }\). For any \(R>0\), consider
where \(B_R(0)\subset \mathbb {R}^3\) is a ball centered at zero and with radius R. Let \(w_R\) be the least energy solution of (3.2). We can take \(w_R\) as a function defined on \(\mathbb {R}^3\), with \(w_R=0\) outside the ball \(B_R(0)\). Then for \(t>0\) and sufficiently small \(\varepsilon >0\), we have
Since \(4<\mu <6\), there exists \(t_0>0\) such that \(I_\varepsilon (tw_R)<0\) for \(t>t_0\). Then
where \(I_R\) is the energy functional of (3.2). Thus in order to prove Lemma 3.1, we only need to show that \(g(R):=I_R(w_R)\rightarrow 0\) as \(R\rightarrow \infty\).
Claim:\(g(R)=I_R(w_R)\rightarrow 0\) as \(R\rightarrow \infty\).
For any \(m>0\), let \(c_R^m\) be the least energy level of the energy functional associated to the equation
Then \(g(R)\le c_R^m\), and as the proof of Lemma 2.3 in [27], we can prove \(c_R^m \rightarrow c^m\) as \(R\rightarrow \infty\), where \(c^m\) is the ground energy level of of the energy functional associated to the equation
By the Lemma 3.6 of [27] (Claim 3.6.1 in the proof of it), \(c^m \rightarrow 0\) as \(m\rightarrow 0^+\). Then from the above arguments we can get \(g(R)=I_R(w_R)\rightarrow 0\) as \(R\rightarrow \infty\). \(\square\)
Remark 3.2
As a result of condition (V2)(the zero set of potential V is not empty), we can estimate in Lemma 3.1 that the energy level \(\limsup \nolimits _{\varepsilon \rightarrow 0^+}c_\varepsilon =0\), this is very different to the case \(\inf \nolimits _{x\in \mathbb {R}^3} V(x)>0\)(see Lemma 2.3 in [29] for instance) and this result can be used in the subsequent arguments to prove \(\Vert u_\varepsilon \Vert _{L^\infty }\rightarrow 0\) as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0^+\) which in the end yields \(u_\varepsilon\) is the solution of the original problem for sufficiently small \(\varepsilon >0\).
Now we estimate the limit of \(\Vert u_\varepsilon \Vert _\varepsilon\) and \(\Vert u_\varepsilon \Vert _{L^{\mu }}\) as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0^+\).
Lemma 3.3
\(\Vert u_\varepsilon \Vert _\varepsilon \rightarrow 0\), \(\Vert u_\varepsilon \Vert _{L^{\mu }}\rightarrow 0\) as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0^+\).
Proof
We first prove \(\Vert u_\varepsilon \Vert _\varepsilon \rightarrow 0\) as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0^+\). Since
and
we get
Thus by (2.2) and Lemma 3.1, we have \(\Vert u_\varepsilon \Vert _\varepsilon \rightarrow 0\) as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0^+\).
Now we show \(\Vert u_\varepsilon \Vert _{L^{\mu }}\rightarrow 0\) as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0^+\).
Since
we know
Then
By (f2) and (f3), there exists \(C>0\) such that \(\tilde{F}(t)\ge Ct^{\mu }\), thus
On \(\mathbb {R}^3{\setminus} M_{\frac{1}{\varepsilon }}\), we know
thus
By the Sobolev embedding theorem, we know
Thus by (3.5) and (3.6), we have
\(\square\)
Now we apply Theorem 2.4 to estimate \(\Vert u_{\varepsilon }\Vert _{L^{\infty }}\) as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0^+\). We know \(u_\varepsilon\) satisfies
From the above arguments we know that there exist \(C_1,C_2>0\) such that
for sufficiently small \(\varepsilon >0\). Since \(g(x,u_\varepsilon )\le \tilde{f}(u_\varepsilon )\), we have
It yields
By the definition of \(\tilde{f}(t)\), there exist \(C_3,C_4>0\) such that
Thus from above arguments, there exist \(C,C'>0\) such that
It implies that
where \(c=-C-C'u_\varepsilon ^{\mu -2},\)\(B_1(0)\) is any ball in \(\mathbb {R}^3\) with radius 1. We have that \(c(x)\in L^q(B_1(0))\), \(q=\frac{\mu }{\mu -2}\), and
Thus \(q>\frac{3}{2}\) and there exists \(\Lambda >0\) such that \(\Vert c\Vert _{L^q(B_1(0))}<\Lambda\). Now we can apply Theorem 2.4 and get that \(u_\varepsilon \in L_{loc}^{\infty }(B_1(0))\) and
where \(\bar{C}\) is a constant only dependent on \(\Lambda\) and independent of \(\varepsilon >0\). Now by Lemma 3.3 we know \(\Vert u_\varepsilon \Vert _{L^\infty }\rightarrow 0\) as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0^+.\) Thus we have shown that for sufficiently small \(\varepsilon >0\), \(u_\varepsilon\) is the solution of (2.1) and equivalently proved Theorem 1.1.
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Sun, D., Zhang, Z. Existence of positive solutions to Kirchhoff equations with vanishing potentials and general nonlinearity. SN Partial Differ. Equ. Appl. 1, 8 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42985-020-00010-6
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