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We are concerned with the following Kirchhoff type equation with critical nonlinearity:
where \(\varepsilon \) is a small positive parameter, \(a,b>0\), \(\lambda > 0\), \(2 < p \le 4\). Under certain assumptions on the potential V, we construct a family of positive solutions \({u_\varepsilon } \in {H^1}({\mathbb {R}^3})\) which concentrates around a local minimum of V as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0\). Although, critical growth Kirchhoff type problem
has been studied in e.g. He et al. [18], where the assumption for f(u) is that \(f(u) \sim |u{|^{p - 2}}u\) with \(4 < p < 6\) and satisfies the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition which forces the boundedness of any Palais-Smale sequence of the corresponding energy functional of the equation. As \(g(u): = \lambda {| u |^{p - 2}}u + {| u |^4u}\) with \(2<p\le 4\) does not satisfy the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition (\(\exists \mu > 4, 0 < \mu \int _0^u {g(s)ds \le g(u)u}\)), the boundedness of Palais–Smale sequence becomes a major difficulty in proving the existence of a positive solution. Also, the fact that the function \(g(s)/{s^3}\) is not increasing for \(s > 0\) prevents us from using the Nehari manifold directly as usual. Our result extends the main result in He et al. [18] concerning the existence and concentration of positive solutions to the case where \(f(u) \sim |u{|^{p - 2}}u\) with \(4 < p < 6\).
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This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11371159), Hubei Key Laboratory of Mathematical Sciences and Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University # IRT13066.
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He, Y., Li, G. Standing waves for a class of Kirchhoff type problems in \({\mathbb {R}^3}\) involving critical Sobolev exponents. Calc. Var. 54, 3067–3106 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-015-0894-2
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