Existence and Concentration Results for the General Kirchhoff Type Equations

Abstract

We consider the following singularly perturbed Kirchhoff type equations $$-\varepsilon^2 M\left(\varepsilon^{2-N}\int_{\R^N}|\nabla u|^2 dx\right)\Delta u +V(x)u=|u|^{p-2}u~\hbox{in}~\R^N, u\in H^1(\R^N),N\geq 1,$$ where $M\in C([0,\infty))$ and $V\in C(\R^N)$ are given functions. Under very mild assumptions on $M$, we prove the existence of single-peak or multi-peak solution $u_\varepsilon$ for above problem, concentrating around topologically stable critical points of $V$, by a direct corresponding argument. This gives an affirmative answer to an open problem raised by Figueiredo et al. in 2014 [ARMA,213].