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This paper aims to study the existence and concentration of solutions for the stationary Dirac equation in \(\mathbb {R}^3\) with critical nonlinearities:
where \(\varepsilon >0\) is a small parameter and \(a>0\) is a constant. We also show the semiclassical solutions \(\omega _\varepsilon \) with maximum points \(x_\varepsilon \) concentrating at a special set \({\mathcal {H}}_{P}\) characterized by V(x), P(x) and Q(x), and for any sequence, \(x_\varepsilon \rightarrow x_0\in {\mathcal {H}}_{P}, v_\varepsilon (x):=\omega _\varepsilon (\varepsilon x+x_\varepsilon )\) converges in \(H^1(\mathbb {R}^3,\mathbb {C}^4)\) to a least energy solution u of
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Benhassine, A. On semiclassical states for Dirac equations. Z. Angew. Math. Phys. 72, 110 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-021-01541-7
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