Radial nonlinear elliptic problems with singular or vanishing potentials

Abstract

In this paper we prove existence of radial solutions for the nonlinear elliptic problem \[ -\mathrm{div}(A(|x|)\nabla u)+V(|x|)u=K(|x|)f(u) \quad \text{in }\mathbb{R}^{N}, \] \noindent with suitable hypotheses on the radial potentials $A,V,K$. We first get compact embeddings of radial weighted Sobolev spaces into sum of weighted Lebesgue spaces, and then we apply standard variational techniques to get existence results.