Existence and orbital stability of standing waves for nonlinear Schrödinger systems

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the existence of solutions in $H^1(R^N) \times H^1(R^N)$ for nonlinear Schrödinger systems of the form \[ \left\{ \begin{aligned} -Δu_1 &= λ_1 u_1 + μ_1 |u_1|^{p_1 -2}u_1 + r_1β|u_1|^{r_1-2}u_1|u_2|^{r_2}, \\ -Δu_2 &= λ_2 u_2 + μ_2 |u_2|^{p_2 -2}u_2 + r_2 β|u_1|^{r_1}|u_2|^{r_2 -2}u_2, \end{aligned} \right. \] under the constraints \[\int_{R^N}|u_1|^2 \, dx = a_1>0,\quad \int_{R^N}|u_2|^2 \, dx = a_2>0. \] Here $ N \geq 1, β>0, μ_i >0, r_i >1, 2 <p_i < 2 + \frac{4}{N}$ for $i=1,2$ and $ r_1 + r_2 < 2 + \frac{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, and as a consequence we obtain the orbital stability of the standing waves associated to the set of minimizers.