Standing waves with a critical frequency for nonlinear Schrödinger equations, II

For elliptic equations of the form \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$\Delta u -V(\varepsilon x) u + f(u)=0, x\in {\bf R}^N$\end{document}, where the potential V satisfies \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$\liminf_{\vert x\vert\to \infty} V(x) > \inf_{{\bf R}^N} V(x) =0$\end{document}, we develop a new variational approach to construct localized bound state solutions concentrating at an isolated component of the local minimum of V where the minimum value of V can be positive or zero. These solutions give rise to standing wave solutions having a critical frequency for the corresponding nonlinear Schrödinger equations. Our method allows a fairly general class of nonlinearity f(u) including ones without any growth restrictions at large.