Non-Nehari manifold method for asymptotically periodic Schrdinger equations

We consider the semilinear Schrdinger equation-△u + V(x)u = f(x, u), x ∈ RN,u ∈ H 1(RN),where f is a superlinear, subcritical nonlinearity. We mainly study the case where V(x) = V0(x) + V1(x),V0∈ C(RN), V0(x) is 1-periodic in each of x1, x2,..., x N and sup[σ(-△ + V0) ∩(-∞, 0)] < 0 < inf[σ(-△ +V0)∩(0, ∞)], V1∈ C(RN) and lim|x|→∞V1(x) = 0. Inspired by previous work of Li et al.(2006), Pankov(2005)and Szulkin and Weth(2009), we develop a more direct approach to generalize the main result of Szulkin and Weth(2009) by removing the "strictly increasing" condition in the Nehari type assumption on f(x, t)/|t|. Unlike the Nahari manifold method, the main idea of our approach lies on finding a minimizing Cerami sequence for the energy functional outside the Nehari-Pankov manifold N0 by using the diagonal method.