Existence and concentration result for the Kirchhoff type equations with general nonlinearities (Q398716)

The authors study the existence of positive solutions to the Kirchhoff type equations: \[ -\epsilon^2M\Big(\epsilon^{2-N}\int_{\mathbb R^N}|\nabla u|^2dx\Big)\Delta u +V(x)u=f(u)\quad\text{in }\mathbb R^N,\quad u\in H^1(\mathbb R^N),\quad N\geq 1, \] where \(\epsilon\) is a small parameter, \(M:[0,\infty )\to\mathbb R\), \(f:\mathbb R\to\mathbb R\) and \(V:\mathbb R^N\to\mathbb R\) are given continuous functions. When \(\epsilon=1\), \(M(t)=a+bt\) and \(N=1\), the above equation reduces to the stationary case of the model proposed by Kirchhoff. When \(M(t)\equiv 1\), the above equation reduces to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Under suitable conditions on \(M\) and general conditions on \(f\), and employing variational methods, the authors construct a family of positive solutions \((u_\epsilon)_\epsilon\) which concentrates at a local minimum of \(V\) after extracting a subsequence \((\epsilon_k)\).