In this paper we deal with the following class of nonlinear Schrödinger equations
where is a real parameter, the potential V and the weight Q are radial, which can be singular at the origin, unbounded or decaying at infinity and the nonlinearity behaves like at infinity. By performing a variational approach based on a weighted Trudinger–Moser type inequality proved here, we obtain some existence and multiplicity results.
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