Abstract
<abstract><p>We are concerned with the following Schrödinger type equation with variable exponents</p>
<p><disp-formula> <label/> <tex-math id="FE1"> \begin{document}$ \begin{equation*} (-\Delta_{p(x)})^{s}u+V(x)|u|^{p(x)-2}u = f(x, u)\, \, \, \, \text{in}\, \, \, \, \mathbb{R}^{N}, \end{equation*} $\end{document} </tex-math></disp-formula></p>
<p>where $ (-\Delta_{p(x)})^{s} $ is the fractional $ p(x) $-Laplace operator, $ s\in (0, 1) $, $ V:\mathbb{R}^{N}\to (0, +\infty) $ is a continuous potential function, and $ f:\mathbb{R}^{N}\times\mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R} $ satisfies the Carathéodory condition. We study the nonlinearity of this equation which is superlinear but does not satisfy the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz type condition. By using variational techniques and the fountain theorem, we obtain the existence and multiplicity of nontrivial solutions. Furthermore, we show that the problem has a sequence of solutions with high energies.</p></abstract>
Publisher
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
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