Existence and concentration of ground state solutions for an exponentially critical Choquard equation involving mixed local-nonlocal operators
Shaoxiong Chen, Min Yang, Zhipeng Yang
TL;DR
This work proves the existence and semiclassical concentration of positive ground state solutions for a two-dimensional mixed local-nonlocal Choquard equation with exponential critical growth. By developing a variational framework on $W_{\varepsilon}$, employing the Trudinger--Moser inequality and Hardy–Littlewood–Sobolev convolution estimates, it shows ground states exist for small $\varepsilon$ and concentrate near the minima of the potential $V$. A comparison with an autonomous limit problem yields precise energy-level estimates and a clear concentration description as $\varepsilon\to0^+$. The results extend mixed-operator and nonlocal Choquard analyses to the critical exponential regime in $\mathbb{R}^2$, providing rigorous insight into semiclassical behavior of such systems.
Abstract
We study the Choquard equation involving mixed local and nonlocal operators \[-\varepsilon^{2}Δu+\varepsilon^{2s}(-Δ)^{s}u+V(x)u=\varepsilon^{μ-2}\left(\frac{1}{|x|^μ}*F(u)\right)f(u)\quad \text{in }\R^{2},\] where \(\varepsilon>0\), \(s\in(0,1)\), \(0<μ<2\), \(f\) has Trudinger--Moser critical exponential growth, and \(F(t)=\int_{0}^{t}f(τ)\,dτ\). By variational methods, combined with the Trudinger--Moser inequality and compactness arguments adapted to the critical growth and the nonlocal interaction term, we prove the existence of ground state solutions and describe their concentration behavior as \(\varepsilon\to0^{+}\).
