Standing waves with a critical frequency for nonlinear Choquard equations

Abstract: In this paper, we study the nonlocal Choquard equation $$ -\varepsilon^2 \Delta u_\varepsilon + V u_\varepsilon= (I_\alpha * |u_\varepsilon|^p)|u_\varepsilon|^{p-2}u_\varepsilon $$ where $N\geq 1$, $I_\alpha$ is the Riesz potential of order $\alpha \in (0, N)$ and $\varepsilon>0$ is a parameter. When the nonnegative potential $V\in C (\mathbb{R}^N)$ achieves $0$ with a homogeneous behaviour or on the closure of an open set but remains bounded away from $0$ at infinity, we show the existence of groundstate solutions for small $\varepsilon>0$ and exhibit the concentration behaviour as $\varepsilon\to 0$.