Existence of positive solutions for a class of quasilinear Schrödinger equations with critical Choquard nonlinearity

Abstract: This article is concerned with the existence of positive weak solutions for the following quasilinear Schr\"odinger Choquard equation: \begin{equation*} \begin{array}{cc} \displaystyle -div(g^2(u)\nabla u) + g(u)g'(u)\nabla u + a(x) u = k(x, u) \;\text{in} \; \mathbb{R}^N, \end{array} \end{equation*} where $N \geq 3$, $\displaystyle k(x,u) := h(x,u) + (I_{\vartheta}|u|^{\alpha\cdot2^\mu})|u|^{\alpha\cdot2^*\mu-2}u$, $g : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}^+$ is a differentiable even function with $g(0) = 1$ and $g'(t) \geq 0$ for all $t \geq 0$; $h\in C( \mathbb{R}^N \times\mathbb{R}, \mathbb{R})$ and the potential $a \in C( \mathbb{R}^N, \mathbb{R})$. We establish the existence of a positive solution using the change of variable and variational methods under appropriate assumptions on $g$, $h$ and $a$.