Normalized solutions to a class of $(2, q)$-Laplacian equationsin the strongly sublinear regime

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the existence and multiplicity of normalized solutions for the following $(2, q)$-Laplacian equation \begin{equation}\label{Equation1} \left\{\begin{aligned} &-\Delta u-\Delta_q u+\lambda u=g(u),\quad x \in \mathbb{R}^N, &\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}u^2 d x=c^2, \end{aligned}\right. \tag{$\mathscr E_\lambda$} \end{equation} where $1<q<N$, $\Delta_q=\operatorname{div}\left(|\nabla u|^{q-2} \nabla u\right)$ is the $q$-Laplacian operator, $\lambda$ is a Lagrange multiplier and $c>0$ is a constant. The nonlinearity $g:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is continuous and the behaviour of $g$ at the origin is allowed to be strongly sublinear, i.e., $\lim \limits _{s \rightarrow 0} g(s) / s=-\infty$, which includes the logarithmic nonlinearity $$ g(s)= s \log s^2. $$ We consider a family of approximating problems that can be set in $H^1\left(\mathbb{R}^N\right)\cap D^{1, q}\left(\mathbb{R}^N\right)$ and the corresponding least-energy solutions. Then, we prove that such a family of solutions converges to a least-energy solution to the original problem. Additionally, under certain assumptions about $g$ that allow us to work in a suitable subspace of $H^1\left(\mathbb{R}^N\right)\cap D^{1, q}\left(\mathbb{R}^N\right)$, we prove the existence of infinitely many solutions of the above $(2, q)$-Laplacian equation.