Ground State Solutions for Fractional Choquard Equations with Potential Vanishing at Infinity

Abstract

In this paper, we study a class of nonlinear Choquard equation driven by the fractional Laplacian. When the potential function vanishes at infinity, we obtain the existence of a ground state solution for the fractional Choquard equation by using a non-Nehari manifold method. Moreover, in the zero mass case, we obtain a nontrivial solution by using a perturbation method. The results improve upon those in Alves, Figueiredo, and Yang (2015) and Shen, Gao, and Yang (2016).

Keywords

• variational methods
• fractional Choquard equation
• ground state solution
• vanishing potential