On a Fractional $$ p \& q$$ Laplacian Problem with Critical Sobolev–Hardy Exponents

We consider the following fractional \( p \& q\) Laplacian problem with critical Sobolev–Hardy exponents

$$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta )^{s}_{p} u + (-\Delta )^{s}_{q} u = \frac{|u|^{p^{*}_{s}(\alpha )-2}u}{|x|^{\alpha }}+ \lambda f(x, u) &{} \text{ in } \Omega \\ u=0 &{} \text{ in } \mathbb {R}^{N}{\setminus } \Omega , \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$

where \(0<s<1\), \(1\le q<p<\frac{N}{s}\), \((-\Delta )^{s}_{r}\), with \(r\in \{p,q\}\), is the fractional r-Laplacian operator, \(\lambda \) is a positive parameter, \(\Omega \subset \mathbb {R}^{N}\) is an open bounded domain with smooth boundary, \(0\le \alpha <sp\), and \(p^{*}_{s}(\alpha )=\frac{p(N-\alpha )}{N-sp}\) is the so-called Hardy–Sobolev critical exponent. Using concentration-compactness principle and the mountain pass lemma due to Kajikiya [23], we show the existence of infinitely many solutions which tend to be zero provided that \(\lambda \) belongs to a suitable range.

     

Impulsive fractional boundary value problem with <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplace operator

In the present paper, we deal with the existence and multiplicity of solutions for the following impulsive fractional boundary value problem

$$\begin{aligned} {_{t}}D_{T}^{\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t)\right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t)\right) + a(t)|u(t)|^{p-2}u(t)= & {} f(t,u(t)),\;\;t\ne t_j,\;\;\hbox {a.e.}\;\;t\in [0,T],\\ \Delta \left( {_{t}}I_{T}^{1-\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t_j)\right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t_j)\right) \right)= & {} I_j(u(t_j))\;\;j=1,2,\ldots ,n,\\ u(0)= & {} u(T) = 0. \end{aligned}$$

where \(\alpha \in (1/p, 1]\), \(1<p<\infty \), \(0 = t_0<t_1< t_2< \cdots< t_n < t_{n+1} = T\), \(f:[0,T]\times \mathbb {R} \rightarrow \mathbb {R}\) and \(I_j : \mathbb {R} \rightarrow \mathbb {R}\), \(j = 1, \ldots , n\), are continuous functions, \(a\in C[0,T]\) and

$$\begin{aligned} \Delta \left( {_{t}}I_{T}^{1-\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t_j)\right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t_j)\right) \right)= & {} {_{t}}I_{T}^{1-\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u\left( t_j^+\right) \right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u\left( t_j^+\right) \right) \\&- {_{t}}I_{T}^{1-\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t_j^-)\right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u\left( t_j^-\right) \right) ,\\ {_{t}}I_{T}^{1-\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u\left( t_j^+\right) \right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u\left( t_j^+\right) \right)= & {} \lim _{t \rightarrow t_j^+} {_{t}}I_{T}^{1-\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t)\right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t)\right) ,\\ {_{t}}I_{T}^{1-\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t_j^-)\right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t_j^-)\right)= & {} \lim _{t\rightarrow t_j^-}{_{t}}I_{T}^{1-\alpha }\left( \left| {_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t)\right| ^{p-2}{_{0}}D_{t}^{\alpha }u(t)\right) . \end{aligned}$$

By using variational methods and critical point theory, we give some criteria to guarantee that the above-mentioned impulsive problems have at least one weak solution and a sequences of weak solutions.

     

Classifying First Extremal Points for a Fractional Boundary Value Problem with a Fractional Boundary Condition

Let \(n\in \mathbb {N}\), \(n\ge 2\), \(\beta >0\) fixed, and \(0<b\le \beta \). For \(n-1<\alpha \le n\), we look to classify extremal points for the fractional differential equation \(D_{0^+}^{\alpha }u+p(t) u=0\), satisfying the boundary conditions \(u^{(i)}(0)=0\), \(i=0,\ldots ,n-2\), \(D_{0^+}^\gamma u(b)=0\), where p(t) is a continuous nonnegative function on \([0,\beta ]\) which does not vanish identically on any nondegenerate compact subinterval of \([0,\beta ]\). Using the theory of Krein and Rutman, first extremal points of this boundary value problem are classified. As an application, the results are applied, along with a fixed-point theorem, to show the existence of a solution of a nonlinear fractional boundary value problem.     

A saturation phenomenon for a nonlinear nonlocal eigenvalue problem

Given \(1\le q \le 2\) and \(\alpha \in \mathbb {R}\), we study the properties of the solutions of the minimum problem

$$\begin{aligned} \lambda (\alpha ,q)=\min \left\{ \dfrac{\displaystyle \int _{-1}^{1}|u'|^{2}dx+\alpha \left| \int _{-1}^{1}|u|^{q-1}u\, dx\right| ^{\frac{2}{q}}}{\displaystyle \int _{-1}^{1}|u|^{2}dx}, u\in H_{0}^{1}(-1,1),\,u\not \equiv 0\right\} . \end{aligned}$$

In particular, depending on \(\alpha \) and q, we show that the minimizers have constant sign up to a critical value of \(\alpha =\alpha _{q}\), and when \(\alpha >\alpha _{q}\) the minimizers are odd.

     

Blow Up Criteria for the Incompressible Nematic Liquid Crystal Flows

In this paper, we investigate blow up criteria for the local smooth solutions to the 3D incompressible nematic liquid crystal flows via the components of the gradient velocity field \(\nabla u\) and the gradient orientation field \(\nabla d\). More precisely, we show that \(0< T_{ \ast}<+\infty\) is the maximal time interval if and only if

$$\begin{aligned} & \int_{0}^{T_{\ast}} \bigl\Vert \Vert \partial_{i}u\Vert _{L_{x_{i}} ^{\gamma}} \bigr\Vert _{L_{x_{j}x_{k}}^{\alpha}}^{\beta}+ \|\nabla d\| _{L^{\infty}}^{\frac{8}{3}}\mathrm{d}t=\infty, \\ &\quad\text{ with } \frac{2}{\alpha}+\frac{2}{\beta}\leq\frac{3\alpha +2}{4\alpha}, \text{ and } 1\leq\gamma\leq\alpha,2< \alpha\leq+\infty, \end{aligned}$$

or

$$\begin{aligned} \int_{0}^{T_{\ast}}\|\partial_{3}u_{3} \|^{\beta}_{L^{\alpha}}+\| \nabla d\|^{\frac{8}{3}}_{L^{\infty}} \mathrm{d}t=\infty,\quad\text{with } \frac{3}{\alpha}+\frac{2}{\beta}\leq \frac{3(\alpha+2)}{4 \alpha}, \text{ and } 2< \alpha\leq\infty, \end{aligned}$$

where \(i,j,k\in\{1,2,3\}\), \(i\neq j\), \(i\neq k\), and \(j\neq k\).

     

A concave–convex problem with a variable operator

We study the following elliptic problem \(-A(u) = \lambda u^q\) with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where \(A(u) (x) = \Delta u (x) \chi _{D_1} (x)+ \Delta _p u(x) \chi _{D_2}(x)\) is the Laplacian in one part of the domain, \(D_1\), and the p-Laplacian (with \(p>2\)) in the rest of the domain, \(D_2 \). We show that this problem exhibits a concave–convex nature for \(1<q<p-1\). In fact, we prove that there exists a positive value \(\lambda ^*\) such that the problem has no positive solution for \(\lambda > \lambda ^*\) and a minimal positive solution for \(0<\lambda < \lambda ^*\). If in addition we assume that p is subcritical, that is, \(p<2N/(N-2)\) then there are at least two positive solutions for almost every \(0<\lambda < \lambda ^*\), the first one (that exists for all \(0<\lambda < \lambda ^*\)) is obtained minimizing a suitable functional and the second one (that is proven to exist for almost every \(0<\lambda < \lambda ^*\)) comes from an appropriate (and delicate) mountain pass argument.     

Existence and concentration of solution for a class of fractional Hamiltonian systems with subquadratic potential

In this article, we consider the following fractional Hamiltonian systems:

$$\begin{aligned} {_{t}}D_{\infty }^{\alpha }({_{-\infty }}D_{t}^{\alpha }u) + \lambda L(t)u = \nabla W(t, u), \;\;t\in \mathbb {R}, \end{aligned}$$

where \(\alpha \in (1/2, 1)\), \(\lambda >0\) is a parameter, \(L\in C(\mathbb {R}, \mathbb {R}^{n\times n})\) and \(W \in C^{1}(\mathbb {R} \times \mathbb {R}^n, \mathbb {R})\). Unlike most other papers on this problem, we require that L(t) is a positive semi-definite symmetric matrix for all \(t\in \mathbb {R}\), that is, \(L(t) \equiv 0\) is allowed to occur in some finite interval \(\mathbb {I}\) of \(\mathbb {R}\). Under some mild assumptions on W, we establish the existence of nontrivial weak solution, which vanish on \(\mathbb {R} \setminus \mathbb {I}\) as \(\lambda \rightarrow \infty ,\) and converge to \(\tilde{u}\) in \(H^{\alpha }(\mathbb {R})\); here \(\tilde{u} \in E_{0}^{\alpha }\) is nontrivial weak solution of the Dirichlet BVP for fractional Hamiltonian systems on the finite interval \(\mathbb {I}\). Furthermore, we give the multiplicity results for the above fractional Hamiltonian systems.

     

The solution gap of the Brezis–Nirenberg problem on the hyperbolic space

We consider the positive solutions of the nonlinear eigenvalue problem \(-\Delta _{\mathbb {H}^n} u = \lambda u + u^p, \) with \(p=\frac{n+2}{n-2}\) and \(u \in H_0^1(\Omega ),\) where \(\Omega \) is a geodesic ball of radius \(\theta _1\) on \(\mathbb {H}^n.\) For radial solutions, this equation can be written as an ordinary differential equation having n as a parameter. In this setting, the problem can be extended to consider real values of n. We show that if \(2<n<4\) this problem has a unique positive solution if and only if \(\lambda \in \left( n(n-2)/4 +L^*\,,\, \lambda _1\right) .\) Here \(L^*\) is the first positive value of \(L = -\ell (\ell +1)\) for which a suitably defined associated Legendre function \(P_{\ell }^{-\alpha }(\cosh \theta ) >0\) if \(0 < \theta <\theta _1\) and \(P_{\ell }^{-\alpha }(\cosh \theta _1)=0,\) with \(\alpha = (2-n)/2\).     

Eigenvalue Counting Function for Robin Laplacians on Conical Domains

We study the discrete spectrum of the Robin Laplacian \(Q^{\Omega }_\alpha \) in \(L^2(\Omega )\), \(u\mapsto -\Delta u, \quad D_n u=\alpha u \text { on }\partial \Omega \), where \(D_n\) is the outer unit normal derivative and \(\Omega \subset {\mathbb {R}}^{3}\) is a conical domain with a regular cross-section \(\Theta \subset {\mathbb {S}}^2\), n is the outer unit normal, and \(\alpha >0\) is a fixed constant. It is known from previous papers that the bottom of the essential spectrum of \(Q^{\Omega }_\alpha \) is \(-\alpha ^2\) and that the finiteness of the discrete spectrum depends on the geometry of the cross-section. We show that the accumulation of the discrete spectrum of \(Q^\Omega _\alpha \) is determined by the discrete spectrum of an effective Hamiltonian defined on the boundary and far from the origin. By studying this model operator, we prove that the number of eigenvalues of \(Q^{\Omega }_\alpha \) in \((-\infty ,-\alpha ^2-\lambda )\), with \(\lambda >0\), behaves for \(\lambda \rightarrow 0\) as

$$\begin{aligned} \dfrac{\alpha ^2}{8\pi \lambda } \int _{\partial \Theta } \kappa _+(s)^2\mathrm {d}s +o\left( \frac{1}{\lambda }\right) , \end{aligned}$$

where \(\kappa _+\) is the positive part of the geodesic curvature of the cross-section boundary.

     

The effect of the domain topology on the number of solutions of fractional Laplace problems

In this paper we are concerned with the multiplicity of solutions for the following fractional Laplace problem

$$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta )^{s}u= \mu |u|^{q-2}u + |u|^{2^*_s-2}u &{}\quad \text{ in } \Omega \\ u=0 &{}\quad \text{ in } {\mathbb {R}}^n{\setminus } \Omega , \end{array}\right. \end{aligned}$$

where \(\Omega \subset {\mathbb {R}}^n\) is an open bounded set with continuous boundary, \(n>2s\) with \(s\in (0,1),(-\Delta )^{s}\) is the fractional Laplacian operator, \(\mu \) is a positive real parameter, \(q\in [2, 2^*_s)\) and \(2^*_s=2n/(n-2s)\) is the fractional critical Sobolev exponent. Using the Lusternik–Schnirelman theory, we relate the number of nontrivial solutions of the problem under consideration with the topology of \(\Omega \). Precisely, we show that the problem has at least \(cat_{\Omega }(\Omega )\) nontrivial solutions, provided that \(q=2\) and \(n\geqslant 4s\) or \(q\in (2, 2^*_s)\) and \(n>2s(q+2)/q\), extending the validity of well-known results for the classical Laplace equation to the fractional nonlocal setting.

     

Spectral analysis of a generalized buckling problem on a ball

In this paper, the spectrum of the following fourth order problem

$$\begin{aligned} {\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \varDelta ^2 u+\nu u=-\lambda \varDelta u &{}\quad \text {in } D_1,\\ u=\partial _r u= 0 &{}\quad \text {on } \partial D_1, \end{array}\right. } \end{aligned}$$

where \(D_1\) is the unit ball in \({\mathbb {R}}^N\), is determined for \(\nu < 0\) as well as the nodal properties of the corresponding eigenfunctions. In particular, we show that the first eigenvalue is simple and that the corresponding eigenfunction is radial and (up to a multiplicative factor) positive and decreasing with respect to the radius. This completes earlier results obtained for \(\nu \geqslant 0\) (see Coster et al. in Positivity 19:843–875, 2015) and for \(\nu <0\) (see Laurençot and Walker in J Anal Math 127:69–89, 2014).

     

Hölder continuity for continuous solutions of the singular minimal surface equation with arbitrary zero set

In this paper we prove the following theorem: Let \(\Omega \subset \mathbb {R}^{n}\) be a bounded open set, \(\psi \in C_{c}^{2}(\mathbb {R}^{n})\), \(\psi > 0\) on \(\partial \Omega \), be given boundary values and u a nonnegative solution to the problem

$$\begin{aligned}&u \in C^{0}(\overline{\Omega }) \cap C^{2}(\{u> 0\}) \\&u = \psi \quad \text { on } \; \partial \Omega \\&{\text {div}} \left( \frac{Du}{\sqrt{1 + |Du|^{2}}}\right) = \frac{\alpha }{u \sqrt{1 + |Du|^{2}}} \quad \text { in } \; \{u > 0\} \end{aligned}$$

where \(\alpha > 0\) is a given constant. Then \(u \in C^{0, \frac{1}{2}} (\overline{\Omega })\). Furthermore we prove strict mean convexity of the free boundary \(\partial \{u = 0\}\) provided \(\partial \{u = 0\}\) is assumed to be of class \(C^{2}\) and \(\alpha \ge 1\).

     

Tauberian conditions for the $$(C, \alpha )$$ integrability of functions

For a real-valued continuous function f(x) on \([0,\infty )\), we define

$$\begin{aligned} s(x)=\int _{0}^{x} f(u)du\quad \text {and}\quad \sigma _{\alpha } (x)= \int _{0}^{x}\left( 1-\frac{u}{x}\right) ^{\alpha }f(u)du \end{aligned}$$

for \(x>0\). We say that \(\int _{0}^{\infty } f(u)du\) is \((C, \alpha )\) integrable to L for some \(\alpha >-1\) if the limit \(\lim _{x \rightarrow \infty } \sigma _{\alpha } (x)=L\) exists. It is known that \(\lim _{x \rightarrow \infty } s(x) =L\) implies \(\lim _{x \rightarrow \infty }\sigma _{\alpha } (x) =L\) for all \(\alpha >-1\). The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we introduce some new Tauberian conditions for the \((C, \alpha )\) integrability method under which the converse implication is satisfied, and improve classical Tauberian theorems for the \((C,\alpha )\) integrability method. Next we give short proofs of some classical Tauberian theorems as special cases of some of our results.

     

On weighted iterated Hardy-type inequalities

In this paper the inequality

$$\begin{aligned} \bigg ( \int _0^{\infty } \bigg ( \int _x^{\infty } \bigg ( \int _t^{\infty } h \bigg )^q w(t)\,dt \bigg )^{r / q} u(x)\,{ ds} \bigg )^{1/r}\le C \,\int _0^{\infty } h v, \quad h \in {\mathfrak {M}}^+(0,\infty ) \end{aligned}$$

is characterized. Here \(0< q ,\, r < \infty \) and \(u,\,v,\,w\) are weight functions on \((0,\infty )\).

     

Improved Moser–Trudinger inequality of Tintarev type in dimension <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis> and the existence of its extremal functions

Let \(\Omega \) be a smooth bounded domain in \(\mathbb R^n\) with \(n\ge 2\), \(W^{1,n}_0(\Omega )\) be the usual Sobolev space on \(\Omega \) and define \(\lambda _1(\Omega ) = \inf \nolimits _{u\in W^{1,n}_0(\Omega )\setminus \{0\}}\frac{\int _\Omega |\nabla u|^n \mathrm{d}x}{\int _\Omega |u|^n \mathrm{d}x}\). Based on the blow-up analysis method, we shall establish the following improved Moser–Trudinger inequality of Tintarev type

$$\begin{aligned} \sup _{u\in W^{1,n}_0(\Omega ), \int _\Omega |\nabla u|^n \mathrm{{d}}x-\alpha \int _\Omega |u|^n \mathrm{{d}}x \le 1} \int _\Omega \exp (\alpha _{n} |u|^{\frac{n}{n-1}}) \mathrm{{d}}x < \infty , \end{aligned}$$

for any \(0 \le \alpha < \lambda _1(\Omega )\), where \(\alpha _{n} = n \omega _{n-1}^{\frac{1}{n-1}}\) with \(\omega _{n-1}\) being the surface area of the unit sphere in \(\mathbb R^n\). This inequality is stronger than the improved Moser–Trudinger inequality obtained by Adimurthi and Druet (Differ Equ 29:295–322, 2004) in dimension 2 and by Yang (J Funct Anal 239:100–126, 2006) in higher dimension and extends a result of Tintarev (J Funct Anal 266:55–66, 2014) in dimension 2 to higher dimension. We also prove that the supremum above is attained for any \(0< \alpha < \lambda _{1}(\Omega )\). (The case \(\alpha =0\) corresponding to the Moser–Trudinger inequality is well known.)

     

On a Weighted Singular Integral Operator with Shifts and Slowly Oscillating Data

Let \(\alpha ,\beta \) be orientation-preserving diffeomorphism (shifts) of \(\mathbb {R}_+=(0,\infty )\) onto itself with the only fixed points \(0\) and \(\infty \) and \(U_\alpha ,U_\beta \) be the isometric shift operators on \(L^p(\mathbb {R}_+)\) given by \(U_\alpha f=(\alpha ')^{1/p}(f\circ \alpha )\), \(U_\beta f=(\beta ')^{1/p}(f\circ \beta )\), and \(P_2^\pm =(I\pm S_2)/2\) where

$$\begin{aligned} (S_2 f)(t):=\frac{1}{\pi i}\int \limits _0^\infty \left( \frac{t}{\tau }\right) ^{1/2-1/p}\frac{f(\tau )}{\tau -t}\,d\tau , \quad t\in \mathbb {R}_+, \end{aligned}$$

is the weighted Cauchy singular integral operator. We prove that if \(\alpha ',\beta '\) and \(c,d\) are continuous on \(\mathbb {R}_+\) and slowly oscillating at \(0\) and \(\infty \), and

$$\begin{aligned} \limsup _{t\rightarrow s}|c(t)|<1, \quad \limsup _{t\rightarrow s}|d(t)|<1, \quad s\in \{0,\infty \}, \end{aligned}$$

then the operator \((I-cU_\alpha )P_2^++(I-dU_\beta )P_2^-\) is Fredholm on \(L^p(\mathbb {R}_+)\) and its index is equal to zero. Moreover, its regularizers are described.

     

Existence of positive solution for nonlocal singular fourth order Kirchhoff equation with Hardy potential

This paper is concerned with the existence of positive solution to a class of singular fourth order elliptic equation of Kirchhoff type

$$\begin{aligned} \triangle ^2 u-\lambda M(\Vert \nabla u\Vert ^2)\triangle u-\frac{\mu }{\vert x\vert ^4}u=\frac{h(x)}{u^\gamma }+k(x)u^\alpha , \end{aligned}$$

under Navier boundary conditions, \(u=\triangle u=0\). Here \(\varOmega \subset {\mathbf {R}}^N\), \(N\ge 1\) is a bounded \(C^4\)-domain, \(0\in \varOmega \), h(x) and k(x) are positive continuous functions, \(\gamma \in (0,1)\), \(\alpha \in (0,1)\) and \(M:{\mathbf {R}}^+\rightarrow {\mathbf {R}}^+\) is a continuous function. By using Galerkin method and sharp angle lemma, we will show that this problem has a positive solution for \(\lambda > \frac{\mu }{\mu ^*m_0}\) and \(0<\mu <\mu ^*\). Here \(\mu ^*=\Big (\frac{N(N-4)}{4}\Big )^2\) is the best constant in the Hardy inequality. Besides, if \(\mu =0\), \(\lambda >0\) and h, k are Lipschitz functions, we show that this problem has a positive smooth solution. If \(h,k\in C^{2,\,\theta _0}(\overline{\varOmega })\) for some \(\theta _0\in (0,1)\), then this problem has a positive classical solution.

     

Existence results for a singular quasilinear elliptic equation

Let \(\Omega \subset \mathbb R^N\) be a bounded domain with smooth boundary. Existence of a positive solution to the quasilinear equation

$$\begin{aligned} -\text {div}\left[ \left( a(x)+|u|^\theta \right) \nabla u\right] +\frac{\theta }{2}|u|^{\theta -2}u|\nabla u|^2=|u|^{p-2}u \quad \text {in}\ \Omega \end{aligned}$$

with zero Dirichlet boundary condition is proved. Here \(\theta >0\) and a(x) is a measurable function satisfying \(0<\alpha \le a(x)\le \beta \). The equation involves singularity when \(0<\theta \le 1\). As a main novelty with respect to corresponding results in the literature, we only assume \(\theta +2<p<\frac{2^*}{2}(\theta +2)\). The proof relies on a perturbation method and a critical point theory for E-differentiable functionals.

     

Book reviews

We consider the following singularly perturbed nonlocal elliptic problem

$$\begin{aligned} -\left( \varepsilon ^{2}a+\varepsilon b\displaystyle \int _{\mathbb {R}^{3}}|\nabla u|^{2}dx\right) \Delta u+V(x)u=\displaystyle \varepsilon ^{\alpha -3}(W_{\alpha }(x)*|u|^{p})|u|^{p-2}u, \quad x\in \mathbb {R}^{3}, \end{aligned}$$

where \(\varepsilon >0\) is a parameter, \(a>0,b\ge 0\) are constants, \(\alpha \in (0,3)\), \(p\in [2, 6-\alpha )\), \(W_{\alpha }(x)\) is a convolution kernel and V(x) is an external potential satisfying some conditions. By using variational methods, we establish the existence and concentration of positive ground state solutions for the above equation.