Ground states for quasilinear Schrödinger equations with critical growth (Q1942234)

This paper is concerned with some qualitative properties of solutions of a class of quasilinear Schrödinger equations with critical exponent. The main result establishes the existence of both one-sign and nodal ground states of soliton type solutions. The proof relies essentially on the Nehari manifold method. This enables the authors to analyze the behavior of solutions for subcritical problems and to pass to the limit as the exponent approaches to the critical exponent.