Normalized solutions for a Kirchhoff type equations with potential in $\mathbb{R}^3$

Abstract

In the present paper, we study the existence of normalized solutions to the following Kirchhoff type equations \begin{equation*} -\left(a+b\int_{\R^3}|\nabla u|^2\right)\Delta u+V(x)u+\lambda u=g(u)~\hbox{in}~\R^3 \end{equation*} satisfying the normalized constraint $\displaystyle\int_{\R^3}u^2=c$, where $a,b,c>0$ are prescribed constants, and the nonlinearities $g(u)$ are very general and of mass super-critical. Under some suitable assumptions on $V(x)$ and $g(u)$, we can prove the existence of ground state normalized solutions $(u_c, \lambda_c)\in H^1(\R^3)\times\mathbb{R}$, for any given $c>0$. Due to the presence of the nonlocal term, the weak limit $u$ of any $(PS)_C$ sequence $\{w_n\}$ may not belong to the corresponding Pohozaev manifold, which is different from the local problem. So we have to overcome some new difficulties to gain the compactness of a $(PS)_C$ sequence.