## Positive solutions for asymptotically linear problems in exterior domains.(English)Zbl 1388.35020

Authors’ abstract: The existence of a positive solution for a class of asymptotically linear problems in exterior domains is established via a linking argument on the Nehari manifold and by means of a barycenter function.

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 35J10 Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation 35J61 Semilinear elliptic equations 35Q55 NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations)
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