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In this paper, we consider the following Choquard equation
where \(N\ge 3\), \(I_\mu =|x|^{-\mu }\) with \(0<\mu <N\), \(\Delta _{N}u=\textrm{div}(|\nabla u|^{N-2}\nabla u)\) denotes the N-Laplacian operator, V(x) is a continuous real function on \(\mathbb {R}^N\), F(s) is the primitive of f(s) and \(\varepsilon \) is a positive parameter. Assuming that the nonlinearity f(s) has critical exponential growth in the sense of Trudinger–Moser inequality, we establish the existence, multiplicity and concentration of solutions by variational methods and Ljusternik–Schnirelmann theory, which extends the works of Alves and Figueiredo (J Differ Equ 246:1288–1311, 2009) to the problem with Choquard nonlinearity, Alves et al. (J Differ Equ 261:1933–1972, 2016) to higher dimension.
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A Several technical estimates
A Several technical estimates
Lemma A.1
By the definitions of \(\delta _{n}\) and \(b_\rho \) in (2.9) and (2.10), it holds that \(\delta _{n}=O(\frac{1}{\log n})>0\) and \(b_\rho =\frac{W_\rho \rho ^N(N-1)!}{N^N}\).
Proof
From the definition of \({\overline{w}}_{n}\) in (2.8), we have
Next, calculate
then we have
\(\square \)
Lemma A.2
For \(N\ge 3\), we have
Proof
For \(N\ge 3\), by a direct calculation, we obtain
Then repeat the above steps to get
Particularly, for \(N=2\),
The proof is completed. \(\square \)
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Deng, S., Tian, X. & Xiong, S. Multiplicity and concentration of solutions for a Choquard equation with critical exponential growth in \(\mathbb {R}^N\). Nonlinear Differ. Equ. Appl. 31, 32 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00030-023-00916-1
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Keywords
- Ljusternik–Schnirelmann theory
- Trudinger–Moser inequality
- Choquard nonlinearity
- Multiplicity of solutions