Least energy solutions of nonlinear Schrödinger equations involving the half Laplacian and potential wells (Q323995)

This paper is concerned with some nonlinear Schrödinger equations, related to a potential \(V\), which is a real valued function on \(\mathbb R^N\) and the equations involving the half Laplacian. The fractional powers of the Laplacian, which are called fractional Laplacian and correspond to Levy stable processes, appear in anomalous diffusion phenomena in physics, biology as well as other areas. In order to treat the nonlocal considered problem, the authors study a corresponding extension problem in one more dimension, which allows the investigation of the problem by studying a local problem via classical nonlinear variational methods. The main result of this study is the existence of least energy solutions of the considered nonlinear Schrödinger equations involving the half Laplacian.