AbstractIn this paper we establish the existence and multiplicity of nontrivial solutions to the following problem: $$\begin{aligned} \begin{aligned} (-\Delta )^{\frac{1}{2}}u+u+\bigl(\ln \vert \cdot \vert * \vert u \vert ^{2}\bigr)&=f(u)+\mu \vert u \vert ^{- \gamma -1}u,\quad \text{in }\mathbb{R}, \end{aligned} \end{aligned}$$
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, f is a function with a certain type of growth. We prove the existence of a nontrivial solution at a certain mountain pass level and another ground state solution when the nonlinearity f is of exponential critical growth.