A generalised Nehari manifold method for a class of non linear Schr\"odinger systems in $\mathbb{R}^3$

Abstract

We study the existence of positive solutions of a particular elliptic system in $\mathbb{R}^3$ composed of two coupled non linear stationary Schr\"odinger equations (NLSEs), that is $-\epsilon^2 \Delta u + V(x) u= h_v(u,v), - \epsilon^2 \Delta v + V(x) v=h_u (u,v)$. Under certain hypotheses on the potential $V$ and the non linearity $h$, we manage to prove that there exists a solution $(u_\epsilon,v_\epsilon)$ that decays exponentially with respect to local minima points of the potential and whose energy tends to concentrate around these points, as $\epsilon \to 0$. We also estimate this energy in terms of particular ground state energies. This work follows closely what is done in https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-007-0103-z , although here we consider a more general non linearity and we restrict ourselves to the case where the domain is $\mathbb{R}^3$.