Non-local to local transition for ground states of fractional Schr\"{o}dinger equations on $\mathbb{R}^N$

Abstract

We consider the nonlinear fractional problem \begin{align*} (-\Delta)^{s} u + V(x) u = f(x,u) &\quad \hbox{in $\mathbb{R}^N$} \end{align*} We show that ground state solutions converge (along a subsequence) in $L^2_{\mathrm{loc}} (\mathbb{R}^N)$, under suitable conditions on $f$ and $V$, to a weak solution of the local problem as $s \to 1^-$.