Multiplicity of solutions for critical quasilinear Schrödinger equations using a linking structure

Abstract

It is established multiplicity of solutions for critical quasilinear Schrödinger equations defined in the whole space using a linking structure. The main difficulty comes from the lack of compactness of Sobolev embedding into Lebesgue spaces. Moreover, the potential is bounded from below and above by positive constants. In order to overcome these difficulties we employ Lions Concentration Compactness Principle together with some fine estimates for the energy functional restoring some kind of compactness.