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Ground states for a linearly coupled system of Schr\"odinger equations on $\mathbb{R}^{N}$

Analysis of PDEs 2018-07-14 v1

Abstract

We study the following class of linearly coupled Schr\"{o}dinger elliptic systems {Δu+V1(x)u=μup2u+λ(x)v,xRN,Δv+V2(x)v=vq2v+λ(x)u,xRN,\left\{ \begin{array}{lr} -\Delta u+V_{1}(x)u=\mu|u|^{p-2}u+\lambda(x)v, & \quad x\in\mathbb{R}^{N}, \\ -\Delta v+V_{2}(x)v=|v|^{q-2}v+\lambda(x)u, & x\in\mathbb{R}^{N}, \end{array} \right. where N3N\geq3, 2<pq2=2N/(N2)2<p\leq q\leq 2^{*}=2N/(N-2) and μ0\mu\geq0. We consider nonnegative potentials periodic or asymptotically periodic which are related with the coupling term λ(x)\lambda(x) by the assumption λ(x)δV1(x)V2(x)|\lambda(x)|\leq\delta\sqrt{V_{1}(x)V_{2}(x)}, for some 0<δ<10<\delta<1. We deal with three cases: Firstly, we study the subcritical case, 2<pq<22<p\leq q<2^{*}, and we prove the existence of positive ground state for all parameter μ0\mu\geq0. Secondly, we consider the critical case, 2<p<q=22<p<q=2^{*}, and we prove that there exists μ0>0\mu_{0}>0 such that the coupled system possesses positive ground state solution for all μμ0\mu\geq\mu_{0}. In these cases, we use a minimization method based on Nehari manifold. Finally, we consider the case p=q=2p=q=2^{*}, and we prove that the coupled system has no positive solutions. For that matter, we use a Pohozaev identity type.

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@article{arxiv.1807.03436,
  title  = {Ground states for a linearly coupled system of Schr\"odinger equations on $\mathbb{R}^{N}$},
  author = {João Marcos do Ó and José Carlos de Albuquerque},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.03436},
  year   = {2018}
}

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18 pages