Existence of groundstates for Choquard type equations with Hardy–Littlewood–Sobolev critical exponent

In this paper, we consider a class of Choquard equations with Hardy–Littlewood–Sobolev lower or upper critical exponent in the whole space RN\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$\mathbb{R}^{N}$\end{document}. We combine an argument of L. Jeanjean and H. Tanaka (see (Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 131:2399–2408, 2003) with a concentration–compactness argument, and then we obtain the existence of ground state solutions, which extends and complements the earlier results.