Modified $Q$-Laplacian Problem with Parameter and Exponential Nonlinearity on the Heisenberg Group

Abstract

In this article, we investigate the following modified quasilinear equation driven by the $Q$-Laplacian: \[ \begin{cases} -Δ_Q u - Δ_Q\bigl(|u|^{2α}\bigr)\,|u|^{2α-2} u = λf(ξ,u) & \text{in } Ω, \\[2mm] u = 0 & \text{on } \partialΩ, \end{cases} \] where $\hat{I}{”}_Q(\cdot ):={\mathrm{div}}_{\mathbb{H}}(|{\nabla }_{\mathbb{H}}(\cdot ){|}^{Q-2}{\nabla }_{\mathbb{H}}(\cdot ))$ denotes the $Q$-Laplacian on the Heisenberg group ${\mathbb{H}}^N$, $\hat{I}\text{c◯}\subset {\mathbb{H}}^N$ is a smooth bounded domain with boundary $\partial \hat{I}\text{c◯}$, $f$ behaves like exponential growth in the sense of Moser-Trudinger, and $\hat{I}\pm >\frac{1}{2}$. The objectives of the paper are twofold: first, to establish the existence of a nontrivial positive weak solution, and subsequently to obtain least energy nodal (sign-changing) solutions under both subcritical and critical exponential growth assumptions on the nonlinearity $f$. The analysis relies on a suitable change of variables that reduces the original quasilinear structure to a semilinear variational framework, together with critical point theory on appropriately defined Nehari-type manifolds. The results derived here appear to be genuinely new even in the classical Euclidean setting, thereby extending the existing theory for quasilinear Schrödinger-type equations to the sub-Riemannian context of the Heisenberg group.

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