Ground States for a nonlinear Schr\"odinger system with sublinear coupling terms

We study the existence of ground states for the coupled Schr\"odinger system \begin{equation} \left\{\begin{array}{lll} \displaystyle -\Delta u_i+\lambda_i u_i= \mu_i |u_i|^{2q-2}u_i+\sum_{j\neq i}b_{ij} |u_j|^q|u_i|^{q-2}u_i \\ u_i\in H^1(\mathbb{R}^n), \quad i=1,\ldots, d, \end{array}\right. \end{equation} $n\geq 1$, for $\lambda_i,\mu_i >0$, $b_{ij}=b_{ji}>0$ (the so-called "symmetric attractive case") and $1<q<n/(n-2)^+$. We prove the existence of a nonnegative ground state $(u_1^*,\ldots,u_d^*)$ with $u_i^*$ radially decreasing. Moreover we show that, for $1<q<2$, such ground states are positive in all dimensions and for all values of the parameters

Spiked solutions for Schr\"odinger systems with Sobolev critical exponent: the cases of competitive and weakly cooperative interactions

In this paper we deal with the nonlinear Schr\"odinger system $$-\Delta u_i =\mu_i u_i^3 + \beta u_i \sum_{j\neq i} u_j^2 + \lambda_i u_i, \qquad u_1,\ldots, u_m\in H^1_0(\Omega)$$ in dimension 4, a problem with critical Sobolev exponent. In the competitive case ($\beta<0$ fixed or $\beta\to -\infty$) or in the weakly cooperative case ($\beta\geq 0$ small), we construct, under suitable assumptions on the Robin function associated to the domain $\Omega$, families of positive solutions which blowup and concentrate at different points as $\lambda_1,\ldots, \lambda_m\to 0$. This problem can be seen as a generalization for systems of a Brezis-Nirenberg type problem.Comment: 33 page

Existence and symmetry results for competing variational systems

In this paper we consider a class of gradient systems of type $$-c_i \Delta u_i + V_i(x)u_i=P_{u_i}(u),\quad u_1,..., u_k>0 \text{in}\Omega, \qquad u_1=...=u_k=0 \text{on} \partial \Omega,$$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subseteq \R^N$. Under suitable assumptions on $V_i$ and $P$, we prove the existence of ground-state solutions for this problem. Moreover, for $k=2$, assuming that the domain $\Omega$ and the potentials $V_i$ are radially symmetric, we prove that the ground state solutions are foliated Schwarz symmetric with respect to antipodal points. We provide several examples for our abstract framework.Comment: 21 pages, 0 figure

Increasing powers in a degenerate parabolic logistic equation

The purpose of this paper is to study the asymptotic behavior of the positive solutions of the problem $$\partial_t u-\Delta u=a u-b(x) u^p \text{in} \Omega\times \R^+, u(0)=u_0, u(t)|_{\partial \Omega}=0$$ as $p\to +\infty$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain and $b(x)$ is a nonnegative function. We deduce that the limiting configuration solves a parabolic obstacle problem, and afterwards we fully describe its long time behavior.Comment: 15 page