Existence and Multiplicity of Normalized Solutions for Dirac Equations with non-autonomous nonlinearities

Abstract

In this paper, we study the following nonlinear Dirac equations \begin{align*} \begin{cases} -i\sum\limits_{k=1}^3\alpha_k\partial_k u+m\beta u=f(x,|u|)u+\omega u, \displaystyle \int_{\mathbb{R}^3} |u|^2dx=a^2, \end{cases} \end{align*} where $u: \mathbb{R}^{3}\rightarrow \mathbb{C}^{4}$, $m>0$ is the mass of the Dirac particle, $\omega\in \mathbb{R}$ arises as a Lagrange multiplier, $\partial_k=\frac{\partial}{\partial x_k}$, $\alpha_1,\alpha_2,\alpha_3$ are $4\times 4$ Pauli-Dirac matrices, $a>0$ is a prescribed constant, and $f(x,\cdot)$ has several physical interpretations that will be discussed in the Introduction. Under general assumptions on the nonlinearity $f$, we prove the existence of $L^2$-normalized solutions for the above nonlinear Dirac equations by using perturbation methods in combination with Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction. We also show the multiplicity of these normalized solutions thanks to the multiplicity theorem of Ljusternik-Schnirelmann. Moreover, we obtain bifurcation results of this problem.