A Liouville-type theorem for the coupled Schr\"odinger systems and the uniqueness of the sign-changing radial solutions

Abstract

In this paper, we study the sign-changing radial solutions of the following coupled Schr\"odinger system \begin{equation} \left\{ \begin{array}{lr} -{\Delta}u_j+\lambda_j u_j=\mu_j u_j^3+\sum_{i\neq j}\beta_{ij} u_i^2 u_j \,\,\,\,\,\,\,\, \mbox{in }B_1 ,\nonumber u_j\in H_{0,r}^1(B_1)\mbox{ for }j=1,\cdots,N.\nonumber \end{array} \right. \end{equation} Here, $\lambda_j,\,\mu_j>0$ and $\beta_{ij}=\beta_{ji}$ are constants for $i,j=1,\cdots,N$ and $i\neq j$. $B_1$ denotes the unit ball in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$ centred at the origin. For any $P_1,\cdots,P_N\in\mathbb{N}$, we prove the uniqueness of the radial solution $(u_1,\cdots,u_j)$ with $u_j$ changes its sign exactly $P_j$ times for any $j=1,\cdots,N$ in the following case: $\lambda_j\geq1$ and $|\beta_{ij}|$ are small for $i,j=1,\cdots,N$ and $i\neq j$. New Liouville-type theorems and boundedness results are established for this purpose.