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In this paper, we consider the following nonlinear Schrödinger–Poisson system in \(\mathbb {R}^{3}\):
where 1 < p < 5, K(|y|) and Q(|y|) are two radial, positive, and locally Hölder continuous functions satisfying that
where \(b\in \mathbb {R}\), a,m,n,𝜃 and ε are positive constants. Simulated by the work of Wang and Zhao [31], either a > 0, b < 0 or a > 0, b > 0, m > 2n holds, we use the Lyapunov–Schmidt reduction method to construct infinitely many nonradial positive solutions of (0.1) with arbitrary large energy.
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The corresponding author L. Wang is supported by NSFC11901531 and China Scholarship Council 202008330417.
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Appendix. Some useful estimates
Appendix. Some useful estimates
In this section, we present some technical computations. We first give the following basic estimate.
Lemma A.1
Let r ∈Λk with k sufficiently large, then
where 0 < l ≤ 1, \(\rho =2r\sin \limits \frac {\pi }{k}\).
Proof
For k large enough, we have
Then it follows from symmetry that
So the first estimation holds. By a similar argument, we see easily that the second estimation also holds. □
Lemma A.2
Let r ∈Λk with k sufficiently large, then for any \(y\in {\Omega }_{j_{0}}\), j0 = 1, 2,⋯ ,k,
Proof
For any y ∈Ω1, it is easy to see that |y − xj|≥|y − x1| with j≠ 1. If \(|y-x_{1}|\geq \frac {|x_{j}-x_{1}|}{2}\), then we have \(|y-x_{j}|\geq \frac {|x_{j}-x_{1}|}{2}\). If \(|y-x_{1}|<\frac {|x_{j}-x_{1}|}{2}\), then we have
Thus it follows that \(|y-x_{j}|\geq \frac {|x_{j}-x_{1}|}{2}\) for any y ∈Ω1. By Lemma A.1, we get
By symmetry, we see that (A.1) holds.
Similarly, Lemma A.1 gives that for any y ∈Ω1,
By symmetry, (A.2) also follows. □
Lemma A.3
For any α > 0 and 0 < μ ≤ 1, \(\mathbb {U}_{r}\), \(\mathbb {V}_{r,\mu }\) and \(\frac {\mathbb {U}_{r}^{\alpha }}{\mathbb {V}_{r,\mu }}\) are bounded in \(\mathbb {R}^{3}\).
Proof
By (A.2) in Lemma A.2, there exists a C > 0 independent of k such that \(0<\mathbb {U}_{r}\leq C\) for any y ∈Ωj with j = 1, 2,⋯ ,k. Note that \(\mathbb {R}^{3}=\cup _{j=1}^{k}{\Omega }_{j}\), then \(0<\mathbb {U}_{r}\leq C\) for any \(y\in \mathbb {R}^{3}\). So \(\mathbb {U}_{r}\) is bounded in \(\mathbb {R}^{3}\).
The asymptotical behavior of Vμ at infinity yields that for any y ∈Ω1 and some C > 0,
Thus, we see that \(\sum \limits _{j=1}^{k}V_{\mu }(y-x_{j})\) is bounded by symmetry.
For any y ∈Ω1, we have
Note that \(\frac {U^{\alpha }(y-x_{1})}{V_{\mu }(y-x_{1})}\to 0\) as \(|y-x_{1}|\to \infty \), then \(\frac {U^{\alpha }(y-x_{1})}{V_{\mu }(y-x_{1})}\) is bounded. This implies that \(\frac {\mathbb {U}_{r}^{\alpha }}{\mathbb {V}_{r,\mu }}\) is bounded in Ω1. By symmetry, \(\frac {\mathbb {U}_{r}^{\alpha }}{\mathbb {V}_{r,\mu }}\) is bounded in \(\mathbb {R}^{3}\). □
Lemma A.4
For any 0 < μ ≤ 1, there exists a 0 < 𝜃μ < 1 such that
Proof
Direct computation shows that
From the fact that for any α > 0,
we have
A similar argument implies that
Then there exists a 0 < 𝜃μ < 1 such that
It follows that
Thus (A.3) holds and we finish the proof of this lemma. □
Remark A.5
By Lemma A.4, there exists a constant Cμ > 0 such that
Proposition A.6
There exists a small positive number σ > 0 such that
where I is defined as in (2.1),
B3 > 0 is a positive constant and Bk(r) is a function satisfying
Proof
Clearly,
For I1, the symmetry gives that
where 0 < σ < 1. Here we use the estimation:
Next, we estimate I2:
where 0 < κ ≤ ε. It is easy to see that
Finally, we claim that
Note that
Since
and
Combining (A.4), (A.5) and (A.6), we yield that
Thus, we finish the proof. □
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Jin, K., Wang, L. Infinitely Many Solutions for the Nonlinear Schrödinger–Poisson System. J Dyn Control Syst 29, 1299–1322 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10883-022-09636-8
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