A variational analysis of a gauged nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Alessio Pomponio; David Ruiz

doi:10.4171/jems/535

JournalsjemsVol. 17, No. 6pp. 1463–1486

A variational analysis of a gauged nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Alessio Pomponio
Politecnico di Bari, Italy
David Ruiz
Universidad de Granada, Spain

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Abstract

This paper is motivated by a gauged Schrödinger equation in dimension 2 including the so-called Chern-Simons term. The study of radial stationary states leads to the nonlocal problem:

- \Delta u(x) + \left( \omega + \frac{h^2(|x|)}{|x|^2} + \int_{|x|}^{+\infty} \frac{h(s)}{s} u^2(s)\, ds \right) u(x) = |u(x)|^{p-1}u(x),

where

h(r)= \frac{1}{2}\int_0^{r} s u^2(s) \, ds.

This problem is the Euler-Lagrange equation of a certain energy functional. In this paper the study of the global behavior of such functional is completed. We show that for $p\in(1,3)$ , the functional may be bounded from below or not, depending on $\omega$ . Quite surprisingly, the threshold value for $\omega$ is explicit. From this study we prove existence and non-existence of positive solutions.

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Alessio Pomponio, David Ruiz, A variational analysis of a gauged nonlinear Schrödinger equation. J. Eur. Math. Soc. 17 (2015), no. 6, pp. 1463–1486

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/535