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Normalized solutions to a class of Kirchhoff type equations with a logarithmic perturbation

Analysis of PDEs 2026-05-07 v1

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the study of normalized solutions to the Kirchhoff type equation with a logarithmic perturbation(a+bR3u2dx)Δu=λu+up2u+ulogu2,xR3,-\left(a+b\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}|\nabla u|^2 \,\mathrm{d}x \right) \Delta u=\lambda u+|u|^{p-2}u+u\log u^2,\quad x \in\mathbb{R}^3, under the normalized constraint R3u2dx=c2\int_{\mathbb{R}^3} u^2 \,\mathrm{d}x = c^2, where a,b>0a,b>0, 2<p62<p\leq 6, c>0c>0 is a constant, and λR\lambda\in\mathbb{R} emerges as a Lagrange multiplier which is not a priori known. A unified variational framework is developed based on Orlicz spaces together with the Pohozaev constraint method and refined fiber map analysis. For 2<p<1432<p<\frac{14}{3} or p=143p=\frac{14}{3} with small mass, the energy functional is bounded from below and admits a positive radial ground state minimizer. For 143<p<6\frac{14}{3}<p<6, where the energy functional is unbounded from below, we establish the existence of two normalized solutions for small mass: a ground state uc+u_c^+ obtained via local minimization, and a second solution ucu_c^- obtained via minimization on the negative component of the Pohozaev manifold. For the Sobolev critical case p=6p=6, we construct a ground state solution and, under a technical condition on the parameters, a second solution by introducing a proper auxiliary functional and precise energy estimates with Aubin-Talenti bubbles. Asymptotically as c0+c\to0^+, the L2L^{2} norm of the gradient of ground state solution vanishes for 2<p62<p\le6. Surprisingly, for 143<p<6\frac{14}{3}<p<6, the L2L^{2} norm of the gradient of the second solution diverges to infinity as c0+c\to 0^+, while for p=6p=6 it concentrates around the Aubin-Talenti bubble with energy converging to the energy level of the corresponding critical Kirchhoff equation.

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@article{arxiv.2605.04766,
  title  = {Normalized solutions to a class of Kirchhoff type equations with a logarithmic perturbation},
  author = {Qi Li and Wenshu Zhou and Yuzhu Han},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.04766},
  year   = {2026}
}
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