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Normalized solutions of $L^2$-supercritical NLS equations on noncompact metric graph with vanishing potential and localized nonlinearities

Analysis of PDEs 2026-07-31 v1

Abstract

We study the existence of normalized solutions to the L2L^2-supercritical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a noncompact metric graph GG, {u+W(x)u+λu=χ(x)up2u,on every edge e of G,evue(v)=0,at every vertex vV, \begin{cases} -u''+W(x)u+\lambda u=\chi(x)|u|^{p-2}u, & \text{on every edge } e \text{ of } G,\\[2mm] \displaystyle\sum_{e\succ v}u'_e(v)=0, & \text{at every vertex } v\in V, \end{cases} under the mass constraint Gu2dx=μ>0\int_G |u|^2\,dx=\mu>0, where λ\lambda arises as a Lagrange multiplier. Here p>6p>6, the potential WW belongs to L(G)L^\infty(G), is nonnegative and vanishes at infinity along every unbounded edge of GG, and χ\chi is the characteristic function of the compact core K\mathcal{K}, so that the nonlinearity is localized. In this regime, the energy functional is unbounded from below on the mass constraint, and, since metric graphs are not scale invariant, the scaling arguments and the Pohozaev identity available in the Euclidean setting cannot be used. We prove that, for every μ>0\mu>0, the problem admits a positive solution with λ>0\lambda>0, arising as a constrained critical point at a strictly positive energy level. The proof combines a uniform mountain-pass geometry for a family of approximating functionals, the monotonicity trick together with Morse-type information on the associated Palais-Smale sequences, and a blow-up analysis which rules out the divergence of the Lagrange multipliers. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first existence result for normalized solutions of the L2L^2-supercritical NLS equation on a noncompact metric graph in the presence of an external potential.

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@article{arxiv.2607.29332,
  title  = {Normalized solutions of $L^2$-supercritical NLS equations on noncompact metric graph with vanishing potential and localized nonlinearities},
  author = {Archana Prajapati and Divya Goel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.29332},
  year   = {2026}
}