Concentration phenomena for critical fractional Schr\"odinger systems

Abstract

In this paper we study the existence, multiplicity and concentration behavior of solutions for the following critical fractional Schr\"odinger system \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \varepsilon^{2s} (-\Delta)^{s}u+V(x) u=Q_{u}(u, v)+\frac{1}{2^{*}_{s}}K_{u}(u, v) &\mbox{ in } \mathbb{R}^{N}\varepsilon^{2s} (-\Delta)^{s}u+W(x) v=Q_{v}(u, v)+\frac{1}{2^{*}_{s}}K_{v}(u, v) &\mbox{ in } \mathbb{R}^{N} u, v>0 &\mbox{ in } \R^{N}, \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} where $\varepsilon>0$ is a parameter, $s\in (0, 1)$, $N>2s$, $(-\Delta)^{s}$ is the fractional Laplacian operator, $V:\mathbb{R}^{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ and $W:\mathbb{R}^{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ are positive H\"older continuous potentials, $Q$ and $K$ are homogeneous $C^{2}$-functions having subcritical and critical growth respectively. We relate the number of solutions with the topology of the set where the potentials $V$ and $W$ attain their minimum values. The proofs rely on the Ljusternik-Schnirelmann theory and variational methods.