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Soliton solutions for quasilinear Schrödinger equations, I

Author(s): Jiaquan Liu; Zhi-Qiang Wang
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 131 (2003), 441-448.
MSC (2000): Primary 35J10, 35J20, 35J25
Posted: September 17, 2002
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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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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
Email: wang@math.usu.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-02-06783-7
PII: S 0002-9939(02)06783-7
Received by editor(s): September 4, 2001
Posted: September 17, 2002
Communicated by: David S. Tartakoff
Copyright of article: Copyright 2002, American Mathematical Society


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