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Quasilinear Schrödinger Critical Problem on the Heisenberg group \(\mathbb{H}^N\)

Analysis of PDEs 2026-07-16 v1

Abstract

We study the existence of standing wave solutions for the following quasilinear Schr\"odinger equations with critical growth on the Heisenberg group ΔHu+V(ξ)uΔH(u2α)u2α2u=λuq2u+up2u in HN -\Delta_{\mathbb{H}} u +V(\xi)u-\Delta_{\mathbb{H}} (\left|u\right|^{2\alpha})\left|u\right|^{2\alpha-2} u= \lambda \left|u\right|^{q-2}u + \left|u\right|^{p-2}u \text{ in }\mathbb{H}^N where HN\mathbb{H}^N is Heisenberg group, ΔH\Delta_{\mathbb{H}} is Kohn Laplacian operator, 4α<q<p2αQ4\alpha <q<p \leq 2\alpha Q^{*}, Q=2QQ2Q^{*}= \frac{2Q}{Q-2} is the critical Folland--Stein exponent, λ\lambda and α\alpha are positive parameters, α>12.\alpha > \frac{1}{2}. By a suitable nonlinear change of variables, the quasilinear equation is transformed into a semilinear one, allowing the use of variational methods in the Folland--Stein Sobolev space S1,2(HN)S^{1,2}(\mathbb{H}^N). Applying the mountain pass theorem together with a concentration--compactness argument adapted to the sub-Riemannian framework, we establish the existence of a nontrivial solution.

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@article{arxiv.2607.14810,
  title  = {Quasilinear Schrödinger Critical Problem on the Heisenberg group \(\mathbb{H}^N\)},
  author = {Ankit Mishra and Divya Goel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.14810},
  year   = {2026}
}