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Concentrating standing waves for the fractional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation

Analysis of PDEs 2013-07-10 v1

Abstract

We consider the semilinear equation ϵ2s(Δ)su+V(x)uup=0,u>0,uH2s(RN) \epsilon^{2s} (-\Delta)^s u + V(x)u - u^p = 0, \quad u>0, \quad u\in H^{2s}(\R^N) where 0<s<1, 1<p<N+2sN2s0<s<1,\ 1<p<\frac{N+2s}{N-2s}, V(x) V(x) is a sufficiently smooth potential with infRV(x)>0\inf_\R V(x)> 0, and ϵ>0\epsilon>0 is a small number. Letting wλw_\lambda be the radial ground state of (Δ)swλ+λwλwλp=0(-\Delta)^s w_\lambda + \lambda w_\lambda - w_\lambda^p=0 in H2s(RN)H^{2s}(\R^N), we build solutions of the form uϵ(x)i=1kwλi((xξiϵ)/ϵ), u_\epsilon(x) \sim \sum_{i=1}^k w_{\lambda_i} ((x-\xi_i^\epsilon)/\epsilon), where λi=V(ξiϵ)\lambda_i = V(\xi_i^\epsilon) and the ξiϵ\xi_i^\epsilon approach suitable critical points of VV. Via a Lyapunov Schmidt variational reduction, we recover various existence results already known for the case s=1s=1. In particular such a solution exists around kk nondegenerate critical points of VV. For s=1s=1 this corresponds to the classical results by Floer-Weinstein and Oh.

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@article{arxiv.1307.2301,
  title  = {Concentrating standing waves for the fractional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation},
  author = {Juan Dávila and Manuel del Pino and Juncheng Wei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.2301},
  year   = {2013}
}

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