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Soliton solutions for quasilinear Schrödinger equations, I
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Abstract:

For a class of quasilinear Schrödinger equations we establish the existence of ground states of soliton type solutions by a minimization argument.
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Additional Information
  • Jiaquan Liu
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, People’s Republic of China
  • Email: jiaquan@math.pku.edu.cn
  • Zhi-Qiang Wang
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322
  • MR Author ID: 239651
  • Email: wang@math.usu.edu
  • Received by editor(s): September 4, 2001
  • Published electronically: September 17, 2002
  • Communicated by: David S. Tartakoff
  • © Copyright 2002 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 131 (2003), 441-448
  • MSC (2000): Primary 35J10, 35J20, 35J25
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-02-06783-7
  • MathSciNet review: 1933335