Normalized solutions of $L^2$-supercritical NLS equations with periodic potentials

Abstract

In this paper, we study normalized solutions to the following $L^2$-supercritical nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a periodic potential \begin{equation*} \begin{dcases} -Δu +V (x)u + λu=χ_{Ω}(x)f(u)\quad \text{in } \mathbb{R}^N, u>0 \quad \text{in} \ \mathbb{R}^N, \int_{\mathbb{R}^N}\abs{u}^2\, dx =μ. \end{dcases} \end{equation*} Here $N\ge 1$, $\mu >0$ is prescribed, $\lambda \in \mathbb{R}$ is a Lagrange multiplier, $V\in C({\mathbb{R}}^N)$ is $1$-periodic in $x_1,...,x_N$, $f\in C^1(\mathbb{R})$ is a nonlinearity having $L^2$-supercritical growth at infinity, $\Omega \subset {\mathbb{R}}^N$ is either a (nonempty) bounded open set with smooth boundary $\partial \Omega$ or the whole space \(\mathbb{R}^N\), and ${\chi }_{\Omega }$ is the characteristic function of $\Omega$. In both cases, we prove the existence of normalized solutions of mountain pass type when $\mu >0$ is small and $f$ behaves like a power function $|t{|}^{p-2}t$ with $2+4/N<p<2^{\ast }$ at infinity. Moreover, if $\Omega$ is bounded, $1\le N\le 4$ and $f$ has $L^2$-supercritical growth near the origin, then the existence of normalized solutions is obtained for all $\mu >0$. On the other hand, when $\Omega ={\mathbb{R}}^N$, we prove the existence of solutions corresponding to local minimizers when $\mu >0$ is small. When $\Omega$ is bounded, the results are obtained via a monotonicity trick for mountain pass values and blow-up analysis with the Morse index estimates. In the case where $\Omega ={\mathbb{R}}^N$, we develop the concentration-compactness argument based on the Morse index for the existence of mountain pass type solutions.

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