Existence of ground state solutions for a class of nonlinear elliptic equations with fast increasing weight

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1 School of Mathematics and Statistics‎, ‎Southwest University‎, ‎Chongqing 400715‎, ‎P.R‎. ‎China and School of Mathematics and Statistics‎, ‎Chongqing Technology

2 Business University‎, ‎Chongqing 400067‎, ‎P.R‎. ‎China.

3 School of Mathematics and Statistics‎, ‎Southwest University‎, ‎Chongqing 400715‎, ‎P.R‎. ‎China.

Abstract

‎This paper is devoted to get a ground state solution for a class of nonlinear elliptic equations with fast increasing weight‎. ‎We apply the variational methods to prove the existence of ground state solution‎.

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Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society
Volume 43, Issue 7
December 2017
Pages 2111-2124

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  • Receive Date: 08 July 2015
  • Revise Date: 17 March 2016
  • Accept Date: 27 March 2016

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