Bifurcation and standing wave solutions for a quasilinear Schrödinger equation

Abstract

AbstractWe use bifurcation and topological methods to investigate the existence/nonexistence and the multiplicity of positive solutions of the following quasilinear Schrödinger equation$$\left\{ {\matrix{ {-\Delta u-\kappa \Delta \left( {u^2} \right)u = \beta u-\lambda \Phi \left( {u^2} \right)u{\mkern 1mu} {\mkern 1mu} } \hfill & {{\rm in}\;\Omega ,} \hfill \cr {u = 0} \hfill & {{\rm on}\;\partial \Omega } \hfill \cr } } \right.$$involving sublinear/linear/superlinear nonlinearities at zero or infinity with/without signum condition. In particular, we study the changes in the structure of positive solution withκas the varying parameter.