Existence of Multi-bump Standing Waves with a Critical Frequency for Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations (Q4678909)

The authors are concerned with a standing wave \(\psi(x,t)=\exp-iEt/\widehat h)v(x)\) for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation \[ i\widehat h\frac{\partial \psi}{\partial t}+\frac{\widehat h}{2}\Delta\psi-V(x)\psi +|\psi|^{p-1}\psi=0, (t,x)\in\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}^N, \] where \(\widehat h\) denotes the Planck constant. The standing wave \(\psi(x,t)=\exp(-iEt/ \widehat h)v(x)\) means that \(v\) satisfies \[ \frac{\widehat h}{2}\Delta v-\bigl(V(x)-E\bigr)v+v^p=0,\;v(x)>0,\;x\in \mathbb{R}^N. \] The authors obtain polynomial decay and exponential decay of the solution \(v(x)=v_{\widehat h}(x)\) over the whole space \(\mathbb{R}^N\) and outside of the zero set of the potential \(V-E\) respectively tending \(\widehat h\to 0\) under the assumption \(\lim\inf_{|x|\to\infty}(V(x)-E)> \inf_{\mathbb{R}^N}(V(x)-E)=0\) and under some additional conditions. Moreover, they obtain similar results in the case of a domain \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N\).