A note on the NLS equation on Cartan-Hadamard manifolds with unbounded and vanishing potentials

Abstract

We study the semilinear equation $-\Delta_g u + V(\sigma) u = f(u)$ on a Cartan-Hadamard manifold ${\cal M}$ of dimension $N \geq 3$, and we prove the existence of a nontrivial solution under suitable assumptions on the potential function $V \in C({\cal M})$. In particular, the decay of $V$ at infinity is allowed, with some restrictions related to the geometry of ${\cal M}$. We generalize some results proved in $\mathbb{R}^N$ by Alves \emph{et al.}