2026/07/16 by Ankit Mishra, Divya Goel
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We study the existence of standing wave solutions for the following quasilinear Schrödinger equations with critical growth on the Heisenberg group -Δℍ u +V(ξ)u-Δℍ (|u|2α)|u|2α-2 u= λ|u|q-2u + |u|p-2u in ℍN where ℍN is Heisenberg group, Δℍ is Kohn Laplacian operator, 4α<q<p ≤ 2αQ*, \(Q*= (2Q)/(Q-2)\) is the critical Folland--Stein exponent, λ and α are positive parameters, α> (1)/(2). By a suitable nonlinear change of variables, the quasilinear equation is transformed into a semilinear one, allowing the use of variational methods in the Folland--Stein Sobolev space S1,2(ℍN). Applying the mountain pass theorem together with a concentration--compactness argument adapted to the sub-Riemannian framework, we establish the existence of a nontrivial solution.