Minimizers of nonlocal interaction functional with exogenous potential

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to consider the minimization problem of the following nonlocal interaction functional \begin{equation*} E[ρ]=\frac{1}{2}\int_{\mathbb{R}^N} \int_{\mathbb{R}^N}K(x-y)ρ(x)ρ(y)dxdy+\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}F(x)ρ(x)dx. \end{equation*} The kernel $K(x)=\frac{1}{q}|x{|}^q-\frac{1}{p}|x{|}^p$ is an endogenous potential, where $q>p>-N$. The exogenous potential $F$ is a nonnegative continuous function and satisfies $F(x)\to +\infty$ as $|x|\to +\infty$. The existence of minimizers are established based on the concentration compactness principle. Especially, for $F(x)=\beta |x{|}^2(\beta >0)$ and $K(x)=\frac{1}{2}|x{|}^2-\frac{1}{2-N}|x{|}^{2-N}$($N>2$), the global minimizer is given explicitly by the method of calculus of variation.

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