DOI: 10.68381/jca32059 ISSN: 0944-6532

Schrödinger-Poisson System Involving Potential Vanishing at Infinity and Unbounded Below

Genivaldo P. Corrêa, Gelson C. G. dos Santos

This article concerns the following class of system

\left\{ \begin{array}{lr} -\Delta u +V(x)u+\ell(x)\phi u = f(u) + \lambda|u|^{q-2}u & \text{in } \mathbb{R}^3,\\[2mm] -\Delta \phi = \ell(x)u^{2} & \text{in } \mathbb{R}^3,\\[2mm] u,\phi\in D^{1,2}(\mathbb{R}^3), \ u,\phi\geq0 & \text{in } \mathbb{R}^3, \end{array} \right. { − Δ u + V ( x ) u + ℓ ( x ) ϕ u = f ( u ) + λ ∣ u ∣ q − 2 u in  R 3 , − Δ ϕ = ℓ ( x ) u 2 in  R 3 , u , ϕ ∈ D 1 , 2 ( R 3 ) ,   u , ϕ ≥ 0 in  R 3 ,
where
\lambda\geq0 λ ≥ 0
and
q\geq2^*=6 q ≥ 2 ∗ = 6
is the critical Sobolev exponent in dimension 3, the nonlinearity
f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R} f : R → R
is superlinear and has subcritical growth,
V,\ell: \mathbb{R}^3\rightarrow \mathbb{R} V , ℓ : R 3 → R
are measurable functions with
\ell\in L^2(\mathbb{R}^3) ℓ ∈ L 2 ( R 3 )
, the potential
V V
can change sign in
\mathbb{R}^3 R 3
and vanish at infinity, that is,
V (x) \rightarrow 0 V ( x ) → 0
as
|x|\rightarrow\infty ∣ x ∣ → ∞
. Our approach is based on variational method combined with Benci-Fortunato's reduction argument [ Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal. 11 (1998) 283–293], Del Pino-Felmer's penalization technique [ Calc. Var. Partial Diff. Equations 4 (1996) 121–137] and
L^\infty L ∞
-estimate.