Existence and orbital stability of standing waves for nonlinear Schrödinger systems. (October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gou, Tianxiang; Jeanjean, Louis
• Is Part Of: Nonlinear analysis. Volume 144(2016)
• Page Start: 10
• Page End: 22
• Publication Date: 2016-10
• Subjects: Nonlinear Schrödinger systems -- Standing waves -- Orbital stability -- Minimizing sequences -- Symmetric-decreasing rearrangements; Mathematical analysis -- Periodicals; Functional analysis -- Periodicals; Nonlinear theories -- Periodicals; Analyse mathématique -- Périodiques; Analyse fonctionnelle -- Périodiques; Théories non linéaires -- Périodiques; Functional analysis; Mathematical analysis; Nonlinear theories; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 515.7248
• DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2016.05.016
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0362-546X

Abstract

Abstract: In this paper we investigate the existence of solutions in H 1 ( R N ) × H 1 ( R N ) for nonlinear Schrödinger systems of the form { − Δ u 1 = λ 1 u 1 + μ 1 | u 1 | p 1 − 2 u 1 + r 1 β | u 1 | r 1 − 2 u 1 | u 2 | r 2, − Δ u 2 = λ 2 u 2 + μ 2 | u 2 | p 2 − 2 u 2 + r 2 β | u 1 | r 1 | u 2 | r 2 − 2 u 2, under the constraints ∫ R N | u 1 | 2 d x = a 1 > 0, ∫ R N | u 2 | 2 d x = a 2 > 0 . Here N ≥ 1, β > 0, μ i > 0, r i > 1, 2 < p i < 2 + 4 N for i = 1, 2 and r 1 + r 2 < 2 + 4 N . This problem is motivated by the search of standing waves for an evolution problem appearing in several physical models. Our solutions are obtained as constrained global minimizers of an associated functional. Note that in the system λ 1 and λ 2 are unknown and will correspond to the Lagrange multipliers. Our main result is the precompactness of the minimizing sequences, up to translation. Assuming the local well posedness of the associated evolution problem we then obtain the orbital stability of the standing waves associated to the set of minimizers.