In the present paper, we study the existence of least energy nodal solution for a Dirichlet problem driven by the
12−Laplacian operator of the following type:
false(−normalΔfalse)12u+Vfalse(xfalse)u=ffalse(ufalse)0.3em0.3emin0.3emfalse(a,bfalse),u=00.3em0.3emin.5emdouble-struckR∖false(a,bfalse),
where
V:false[a,bfalse]→false[0,+∞false) is a continuous potential and
ffalse(tfalse) is a nonlinearity that grows like
expfalse(t2false) as
t→+∞. By using the constraint variational method and quantitative deformation lemma, we obtain a least energy nodal solution
u for the given problem. Moreover, we show that the energy of
u is strictly larger than twice the ground state energy.