Existence and concentration results for the general Kirchhoff-type equations (Q2679624)

The authors use the penalization method due to Del Pino and Felmer in order to prove the existence of single-peak or multi-peak solution for a nonlocal problem involving the Kirchhoff term. Such solutions concentrating around topologically stable critical points of a potential. The results that can be found in this article give an affirmative answer to an open problem raised by \textit{G. M. Figueiredo} et al. [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 213, No. 3, 931--979 (2014; Zbl 1302.35356)].