Cluster solutions for the Schrödinger-Poisson-Slater problem around a local minimum of the potential

Abstract

In this paper we consider the system in $\mathbb{R}^3$ \begin{equation} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} -\varepsilon^2 \Delta u + V(x)u + \phi(x)u = u^p, \\ -\Delta \phi = u^2, \end{array} \right. \end{equation} for $p\in (1,5)$. We prove the existence of multi-bump solutions whose bumps concentrate around a local minimum of the potential $V(x)$. We point out that such solutions do not exist in the framework of the usual Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation.