Semiclassical states for a magnetic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with exponential critical growth in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the magnetic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation \[ \Big(\frac{\varepsilon}{i}\nabla-A(x)\Big)^{2}u+V(x)u=f(| u|^{2})u \text{ in } \mathbb{R}^{2}, \] where $\varepsilon>0$ is a parameter, $V:\mathbb{R}^{2}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ and $A: \mathbb{R}^{2}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{2}$ are continuous functions and $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is a $C^{1}$ function having exponential critical growth. Under a global assumption on the potential $V$, we use variational methods and Ljusternick-Schnirelmann theory to prove existence, multiplicity, concentration, and decay of nontrivial solutions for $\varepsilon>0$ small.