Ground state solution of a Kirchhoff type equation with singular potentials

Thanh Viet Phan

Published 2022-12-15Version 1

We study the existence and blow-up behavior of minimizers for $E(b)=\inf\Big\{\mathcal{E}_b(u) \,|\, u\in H^1(R^2), \|u\|_{L^2}=1\Big\},$ here $\mathcal{E}_b(u)$ is the Kirchhoff energy functional defined by $\mathcal{E}_b(u)= \int_{R^2} |\nabla u|^2 dx+ b(\int_{R^2} |\nabla u|^2d x)^2+\int_{R^2} V(x) |u(x)|^2 dx - \frac{a}{2} \int_{R^2} |u|^4 dx,$ where $a>0$ and $b>0$ are constants. When $V(x)= -|x|^{-p}$ with $0<p<2$, we prove that the problem has (at least) a minimizer that is non-negative and radially symmetric decreasing. For $a\ge a^*$ (where $a^*$ is the optimal constant in the Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality), we get the behavior of $E(b)$ when $b\to 0^+$. Moreover, for the case $a=a^*$, we analyze the details of the behavior of the minimizers $u_b$ when $b\to 0^+$.