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Existence and phase separation of entire solutions to a pure critical competitive elliptic system

Analysis of PDEs 2017-11-15 v2

Abstract

We establish the existence of a positive fully nontrivial solution (u,v)(u,v) to the weakly coupled elliptic system% \left\{ \begin{tabular} [c]{l}% $-\Delta u=\mu_{1}|u|^{{2}^{\ast}-2}u+\lambda\alpha|u|^{\alpha-2}|v|^{\beta }u,$\\ $-\Delta v=\mu_{2}|v|^{{2}^{\ast}-2}v+\lambda\beta|u|^{\alpha}|v|^{\beta{-2}% }v,$\\ $u,v\in D^{1,2}(\mathbb{R}^{N}),$% \end{tabular} \ \right. where N4,N\geq4, 2:=2NN22^{\ast}:=\frac{2N}{N-2} is the critical Sobolev exponent, α,β(1,2],\alpha,\beta\in(1,2], α+β=2,\alpha+\beta=2^{\ast}, μ1,μ2>0,\mu_{1},\mu_{2}>0, and λ<0.\lambda<0. We show that these solutions exhibit phase separation as λ,\lambda\rightarrow-\infty, and we give a precise description of their limit domains. If μ1=μ2\mu_{1}=\mu_{2} and α=β\alpha=\beta, we prove that the system has infinitely many fully nontrivial solutions, which are not conformally equivalent.

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@article{arxiv.1708.09701,
  title  = {Existence and phase separation of entire solutions to a pure critical competitive elliptic system},
  author = {Mónica Clapp and Angela Pistoia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.09701},
  year   = {2017}
}