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We establish the existence of a solution to a nonlinear competitive Schr\"odinger system whose scalar potential tends to a positive constant at infinity with an appropriate rate. This solution has the property that all components are…
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A general class of nonconvex optimization problems is considered, where the penalty is the composition of a linear operator with a nonsmooth nonconvex mapping, which is concave on the positive real line. The necessary optimality condition…
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