“…In [11] the Trudinger-Moser inequality was extended to the whole R 2 and the authors gave some applications to study equations like (1.3) when the nonlinear term has critical growth of Trudinger-Moser type. For further results and applications, we would like to mention also [2,3,17,29] and references therein. When the potential V is a positive constant and f (x, s) = f (s) for (x, s) ∈ R N × R, that is the autonomous case, the existence of ground states for subcritical nonlinearities was established in [6] for N ≥ 3 and [7] for N = 2 respectively, while in [3] the critical case for N ≥ 3 and N = 2 was treated.…”