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Concentrating phenomenon for fractional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger-Poisson system with critical nonlinearity

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Positive solutions to the fractional Schrödinger-Poisson system concentrate around global minima of the potential V as ε approaches zero.

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The paper examines a fractional Schrödinger-Poisson system in three dimensions that includes a small parameter ε in front of the fractional Laplacian terms and a critical nonlinearity. Under suitable assumptions on the potential V and the nonlinearity g, it constructs a family of positive solutions in the fractional Sobolev space that concentrate at the global minima of V in the limit as ε tends to zero. This construction uses variational methods on the associated energy functional. A reader would care because the result describes the semiclassical localization behavior of the nonlocal system.

Core claim

Under suitable assumptions on the potential V(x) and the critical nonlinearity g(u), the system admits a family of positive solutions u_ε in H^s(R^3) which concentrate around the global minima of V as ε tends to zero.

What carries the argument

Variational construction of solutions to the energy functional in the fractional Sobolev space H^s, combined with analysis of the limiting problem at a global minimum of V.

If this is right

  • Positive solutions exist for every sufficiently small ε > 0.
  • The solutions concentrate their mass at the global minima of V.
  • The construction applies to the critical growth case in the fractional setting.
  • The Poisson term couples with the fractional Schrödinger equation without destroying the concentration.

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  • The same variational approach may apply to related fractional systems with different nonlocal kernels.
  • Numerical approximation of the solutions for concrete choices of V could measure the concentration rate as ε decreases.
  • The result suggests examining whether concentration persists when a magnetic field or time dependence is added.

Load-bearing premise

The assumptions on V and g are compatible with the fractional critical embedding and ensure the limiting problem at a minimum of V has a positive solution.

What would settle it

An explicit potential V and nonlinearity g that meet the stated assumptions but for which no positive concentrating solution exists as ε goes to zero would falsify the claim.

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In this paper, we study the following fractional Schr\"{o}dinger-Poisson system \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \varepsilon^{2s}(-\Delta)^su+V(x)u+\phi u=g(u) & \hbox{in $\mathbb{R}^3$,} \varepsilon^{2t}(-\Delta)^t\phi=u^2,\,\, u>0& \hbox{in $\mathbb{R}^3$,} \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} where $s,t\in(0,1)$, $\varepsilon>0$ is a small parameter. Under some suitable assumptions on potential function $V(x)$ and critical nonlinearity term $g(u)$, we construct a family of positive solutions $u_{\varepsilon}\in H^s(\mathbb{R}^3)$ which concentrates around the global minima of $V$ as $\varepsilon\rightarrow0$.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript considers the fractional Schrödinger-Poisson system ε^{2s}(-Δ)^s u + V(x)u + ϕu = g(u), ε^{2t}(-Δ)^t ϕ = u² in R^3 with s,t ∈ (0,1) and small ε>0. Under suitable assumptions on the potential V and the critical nonlinearity g, it constructs a family of positive solutions u_ε ∈ H^s(R^3) that concentrate around the global minima of V as ε→0, via variational methods.

Significance. If the central existence and concentration result holds, the work extends concentration-compactness techniques to a nonlocal Schrödinger-Poisson system with critical growth in three dimensions. The combination of two fractional Laplacians with different orders and the critical term makes the limiting problem and profile decomposition technically involved; a correct proof would be of interest to researchers working on nonlocal elliptic systems.

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  1. The abstract states that V and g satisfy 'suitable assumptions' but does not list them; the introduction or §2 should explicitly state the precise hypotheses (e.g., the behavior of V near its minima, the growth and Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz conditions on g) so that compatibility with the fractional critical embedding H^s(R^3)↪L^{2^*}(R^3) is immediately verifiable.
  2. Notation for the fractional Sobolev spaces and the norms induced by the operators (-Δ)^s and (-Δ)^t should be introduced once in §1 or §2 and used consistently; the current abstract mixes ε^{2s}(-Δ)^s u with the potential term without defining the precise functional setting.

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We thank the referee for reviewing our manuscript on the existence of concentrating positive solutions for the fractional nonlinear Schrödinger-Poisson system with critical nonlinearity. We appreciate the recognition that a correct proof would extend concentration-compactness methods to this nonlocal setting with two fractional Laplacians and critical growth. The recommendation is listed as uncertain, but the report contains no specific major comments to address point by point.

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  • The referee report provides no explicit major comments or detailed concerns despite the uncertain recommendation, so we cannot respond to or revise based on any particular technical objections regarding the variational methods, profile decomposition, or limiting problem.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in variational existence construction

full rationale

The paper establishes existence of concentrating solutions for the fractional Schrödinger-Poisson system via variational methods (mountain-pass geometry, concentration-compactness arguments) under assumptions on V(x) and g(u) that ensure the required Palais-Smale condition and limiting problem behavior. This is a standard mathematical existence proof; no step reduces a claimed prediction or first-principles result to a fitted parameter, self-definition, or load-bearing self-citation chain. The derivation is self-contained against external benchmarks in nonlinear analysis and does not invoke uniqueness theorems or ansatzes from the authors' prior work in a circular fashion.

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  • standard math Fractional Sobolev embeddings and critical exponent theory hold in the stated range s,t ∈ (0,1)
    Invoked implicitly to set up the variational functional and critical growth.

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