The existence and concentration of weak solutions to a class of p-Laplacian type problems in unbounded domains

In this paper,we study the existence and concentration of weak solutions to the p-Laplacian type elliptic problem-εp△pu+V(z)|u|p-2u-f(u)=0 in Ω,u=0 on ■Ω,u>0 in Ω,N>p>2,where Ω is a domain in RN,possibly unbounded,with empty or smooth boundary,εis a small positive parameter,f∈C1(R+,R)is of subcritical and V:RN→R is a locally Hlder continuous function which is bounded from below,away from zero,such that infΛV<min ■ΛV for some open bounded subset Λ of Ω.We prove that there is anε0>0 such that for anyε∈(0,ε0],the above mentioned problem possesses a weak solution uεwith exponential decay.Moreover,uεconcentrates around a minimum point of the potential V inΛ.Our result generalizes a similar result by del Pino and Felmer(1996)for semilinear elliptic equations to the p-Laplacian type problem.