Existence and multiplicity of normalized solutions for the generalized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation in $\mathbb{R}^2$

Abstract

In this paper, we study the existence and {multiplicity} of nontrivial solitary waves for the generalized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation with prescribed {$L^2$-norm} \begin{equation*}\label{Equation1} \left\{\begin{array}{l} \left(-u_{x x}+D_x^{-2} u_{y y}+\lambda u-f(u)\right)_x=0,{\quad x \in \mathbb{R}^2, } \\[10pt] \displaystyle \int_{\mathbb{R}^2}u^2 d x=a^2, \end{array}\right.%\tag{$\mathscr E_\lambda$} \end{equation*} where $a>0$ and $\lambda \in \mathbb{R}$ is an unknown parameter that appears as a Lagrange multiplier. For the case $f(t)=|t|^{q-2}t$, with $2 0$, we prove the existence of normalized ground state solutions which corresponds to a local minimum of the associated energy functional. In this case, we further show that there exists a sequence $(a_n) \subset (0,a_0)$ with $a_n \to 0$ as $n \to+\infty$, such that for each $a=a_n$, the problem admits a second solution with positive energy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that studies the existence of solutions for the generalized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equations under the $L^2$-constraint, which we refer to them as the normalized solutions.