Nonlinear Perturbations of a periodic magnetic Choquard equation with Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev critical exponent (1907.05435v2)

Abstract: In this paper, we consider the following magnetic nonlinear Choquard equation [-(\nabla+iA(x))^2u+ V(x)u = \left(\frac{1}{|x|^{\alpha}}|u|^{2_{\alpha}^}\right) |u|^{2_{\alpha}^*-2} u + \lambda f(u)\ \textrm{ in }\ \R^N,] where $2_{\alpha}^{*}=\frac{2N-\alpha}{N-2}$ is the critical exponent in the sense of the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality, $\lambda>0$, $N\geq 3$, $0<\alpha< N$, $A: \mathbb{R}^{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{N}$ is an $C^1$, $\mathbb{Z}^N$-periodic vector potential and $V$ is a continuous scalar potential given as a perturbation of a periodic potential. Under suitable assumptions on different types of nonlinearities $f$, namely, $f(x,u)=\left(\frac{1}{|x|^{\alpha}}*|u|^{p}\right)|u|^{p-2} u$ for $(2N-\alpha)/N<p<2^{*}_{\alpha}$, then $f(u)=|u|^{p-1} u$ for $1<p<2^*-1$ and $f(u)=|u|^{2^* - 2}u$ (where $2^*=2N/(N-2)$), we prove the existence of at least one ground state solution for this equation by variational methods if $p$ belongs to some intervals depending on $N$ and $\lambda$.