On the location of spikes for the Schrodinger equation with electromagnetic field

Simone Secchi, Marco Squassina

Published 2004-02-16, updated 2004-08-31Version 3

We consider the standing wave solutions of the three dimensional semilinear Schrodinger equation with competing potential functions $V$ and $K$ and under the action of an external electromagnetic vector field $A$. We establish some necessary conditions for a sequence of such solutions to concentrate, in two different senses, around a given point. In the particular but important case of nonlinearities of power type, we prove that the spikes locate at the critical points of a smooth ground energy map independent of $A$.