Ground state solutions for a nonlinear Choquard equation

Abstract

We discuss the existence of ground state solutions for the Choquard equation $$-\Delta u=(I_\alpha*F(u))F'(u)\quad\quad\quad\text{in }\mathbb R^N.$$ We prove the existence of solutions under general hypotheses, investigating in particular the case of a homogeneous nonlinearity $F(u)=\frac{|u|^p}p$. The cases $N=2$ and $N\ge3$ are treated differently in some steps. The solutions are found through a variational mountain pass strategy. The result presented are contained in the papers with arXiv ID 1212.2027 and 1604.03294