Ground States for Singularly Perturbed Planar Choquard Equation with Critical Exponential Growth

In this paper, we are dedicated to studying the following singularly Choquard equation $$ -\varepsilon^2\Delta u+V(x)u=\varepsilon^{-\alpha}\leftI_{\alpha}\ast F(u)\right]f(u),\ \ \ \ x\in\R^2,$$ where $V(x)$ is a continuous real function on $\R^2$, $I_{\alpha}:\R^2\rightarrow\R$ is the Riesz potential, and $F$ is the primitive function of nonlinearity $f$ which has critical exponential growth. Using the Trudinger-Moser inequality and some delicate estimates, we show that the above problem admits at least one semiclassical ground state solution, for $\varepsilon>0$ small provided that $V(x)$ is periodic in $x$ or asymptotically linear as $|x|\rightarrow \infty$. In particular, a precise and fine lower bound of $\frac{f(t)}{e^{\beta_{0} t^{2}}}$ near infinity is introduced in this paper.