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Segregated Solutions to Critical Elliptic Systems in High Dimensions ($N \geq 5$)

Analysis of PDEs 2026-01-16 v2

Abstract

We study the existence of multiple segregated solutions to the critical coupled Schr\"odinger system {Δu1=K1(y)u122u1+βu222u1222u1,yRN,Δu2=K2(y)u222u2+βu122u2222u2,yRN,u1,u20,u1,u2C0(RN)D1,2(RN), \begin{cases} -\Delta u_{1} = K_1(| y|) | u_{1}|^{2^*-2}u_{1}+\beta | u_{2}|^{\frac{2^{*}}{2}}| u_{1}|^{\frac{2^{*}}{2}-2}u_{1}, & y\in \mathbb R^N,\\ -\Delta u_{2} = K_2(| y|) | u_{2}|^{2^*-2}u_{2}+\beta | u_{1}|^{\frac{2^{*}}{2}}| u_{2}|^{\frac{2^{*}}{2}-2}u_{2}, & y\in\mathbb R^N,\\ u_{1},u_{2}\geq0, u_{1},u_{2}\in C_0(\mathbb R^{N})\cap D^{1,2}(\mathbb R^N), \end{cases} with N5N \geq 5, 2=2NN22^* = \frac{2N}{N-2}, radial potentials K1,K2>0K_1, K_2 > 0,and repulsive coupling β<0\beta < 0.Under the assumption that K1K_1 and K2K_2 attain local maxima at distinct radii r0ρ0r_0 \ne \rho_0 with precise asymptotic expansions near these points, we prove the existence of infinitely many non-radial segregated solutions (u1,k,u2,k)(u_{1,k}, u_{2,k}) for all sufficiently large integers kk. These solutions exhibit multiple bumps concentrating on two separate circles of radius r0r_0 and ρ0\rho_0 respectively. Moreover, each component develops a "dead core'' near the concentration points of the other. The proof overcomes the sublinear and non-smooth nature of the coupling term (2/21<12^*/2 -1 < 1) by constructing a tailored complete metric space and combining a finite-dimensional reduction with a novel tail minimization argument.

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@article{arxiv.2511.14115,
  title  = {Segregated Solutions to Critical Elliptic Systems in High Dimensions ($N \geq 5$)},
  author = {Zijuan Gao and Qing Guo and Chengxiang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.14115},
  year   = {2026}
}