Existence and symmetry of solutions to 2-D Schr\"{o}dinger-Newton equations

TL;DR

This paper establishes the existence and symmetry of solutions to 2-D Schrödinger-Newton equations with periodic potentials, extending previous results to more general nonlinearities and parameters using variational methods.

Contribution

It proves the existence of ground state and mountain pass solutions for a broader class of 2-D Schrödinger-Newton equations with periodic coefficients and nonlinearities, including symmetry properties.

Findings

Existence of ground state solutions under mild conditions.

Existence of mountain pass solutions for certain parameter ranges.

Radial symmetry of positive solutions up to translations.

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the following 2-D Schr\"{o}dinger-Newton equations \begin{eqnarray*} -\Delta u+a(x)u+\frac{\gamma}{2\pi}\left(\log(|\cdot|)*|u|^p\right){|u|}^{p-2}u=b{|u|}^{q-2}u \qquad \text{in} \,\,\, \mathbb{R}^{2}, \end{eqnarray*} where $a\in C(\mathbb{R}^{2})$ is a $\mathbb{Z}^{2}$-periodic function with $\inf_{\mathbb{R}^{2}}a>0$, $\gamma>0$, $b\geq0$, $p\geq2$ and $q\geq 2$. By using ideas from \cite{CW,DW,Stubbe}, under mild assumptions, we obtain existence of ground state solutions and mountain pass solutions to the above equations for $p\geq2$ and $q\geq2p-2$ via variational methods. The auxiliary functional $J_{1}$ plays a key role in the cases $p\geq3$. We also prove the radial symmetry of positive solutions (up to translations) for $p\geq2$ and $q\geq 2$. The corresponding results for planar Schr\"{o}dinger-Poisson systems will also be obtained. Our theorems extend the results in \cite{CW,DW} from $p=2$ and $b=1$ to general $p\geq2$ and $b\geq0$.