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Normalized solutions for the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with potentials

Analysis of PDEs 2025-08-01 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we find normalized solutions to the following Schr\"{o}dinger equation \begin{equation}\notag \begin{aligned} &-\Delta u-\frac{\mu}{|x|^2}h(x)u+\lambda u =f(u)\quad\text{in}\quad\mathbb{R}^{N},\\ & u>0,\quad \int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}u^2dx=a^2, \end{aligned} \end{equation} where N3N\geq3, a>0a>0 is fixed, ff satisfies mass-subcritical growth conditions and hh is a given bounded function with h1||h||_\infty\le 1. The L2(RN)L^2(\mathbb{R}^N)-norm of uu is fixed and λ\lambda appears as a Lagrange multiplier. Our solutions are constructed by minimizing the corresponding energy functional on a suitable constraint. Due to the presence of a possibly nonradial term hh, establishing compactness becomes challenging. To address this difficulty, we employ the splitting lemma to exclude both the vanishing and the dichotomy of a given any minimizing sequence for appropriate a>0a > 0. Furthermore, we show that if hh is radial, then radial solutions can be obtained for any a>0a>0. In this case, the radial symmetry allows us to prove that such solutions converge to a ground state solution of the limit problem as μ0+\mu \to 0^+.

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@article{arxiv.2507.20961,
  title  = {Normalized solutions for the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with potentials},
  author = {Matteo Rizzi and Xueqin Peng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.20961},
  year   = {2025}
}
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