Existence and asymptotic behavior of positive solutions for Kirchhoff type problems with steep potential well

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the following Kirchhoff type problem{−(a+b∫R3|∇u|2dx)Δu+λV(x)u=|u|p−2uinR3,u∈H1(R3), where a>0 is a constant, b and λ are positive parameters, and 2<p<6. Suppose that the nonnegative continuous potential V represents a potential well with the bottom V−1(0), the equation has been extensively studied in the case 4≤p<6. In contrast, no existence result of solutions is available for the case 2<p<4 due to the presence of the term (∫R3|∇u|2dx)Δu. By combining the truncation technique and the parameter-dependent compactness lemma, we prove the existence of positive solutions for b small and λ large in the case 2<p<4. Moreover, we also explore the decay rate of the positive solutions as |x|→∞ as well as their asymptotic behavior as b→0 and λ→∞.