Existence and convergence of solutions to $p$-Laplace equations on locally finite graphs

Abstract

We are mainly concerned with the nonlinear $p$-Laplace equation \begin{equation*} -\Delta_pu+\rho|u|^{p-2}u=\psi(x,u) \end{equation*} on a locally finite graph $G=(V,E)$, where $p$ belongs to $(1, +\infty)$. We obtain existence of positive solutions and positive ground state solutions by using the mountain-pass theorem and the Nehari manifold respectively. Moreover, we also analyze the asymptotic behavior for a sequence of positive ground state solutions. Compared with all the existing relevant works, our results have made essential improvements in at least three aspects: $(i)$ $p$ can take any value in $(1, +\infty)$; $(ii)$ the conditions on the graph $G$ and the potential $\rho$ are relaxed; $(iii)$ for the existence of positive solutions, the growth condition in previous works on the nonlinear term $\psi(x,s)$ as $s\rightarrow +\infty$ is removed.