# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

February  2020, 19(2): 1181-1204. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020055

## Multiple solutions for a nonlinear Schrödinger systems

 Department of Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

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Received  May 2019 Revised  May 2019 Published  October 2019

Fund Project: This work is supported by NSFC (11571040, 11771235).

This paper is concerned with the following nonlinear Schrödinger systems:
 \left\{\begin{aligned}-\Delta u+a(x)u& = |u|^{p-2}u+\beta |u|^{\frac{p}{2}-2}u|v|^{\frac{p}{2}} \ \ \hbox{in } \mathbb{R}^{N}\\-\Delta v+a(x)v& = |v|^{p-2}v+\beta |v|^{\frac{p}{2}-2}v|u|^{\frac{p}{2}}\ \ \ \hbox{in } \mathbb{R}^{N}\\(u,v)&\in (H^1(\mathbb{R}^N))^2,\end{aligned}\right. \ \ \ \ \ \ \ {(P)}
where
 $N\geq3$
and
 $2 , $ \beta\in \mathbb{R} $is a coupling constant. $ a(x) $is a $ \mathcal{C}^1 $potential function. In the repulsive case, i.e. $ \beta<0 $, under some suitable decay assumptions but without any symmetric assumptions on the potential $ a(x) $, we prove the existence of infinitely many solutions for the problem $ (P). $Citation: Fengshuang Gao, Yuxia Guo. Multiple solutions for a nonlinear Schrödinger systems. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2020, 19 (2) : 1181-1204. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020055 ##### References:  [1] R. Adams, Sobolev Spaces, Academic press, New York-London, 1975. Google Scholar [2] W. Ao and J. Wei, Infinitely many positive solutions for nonlinear equations with non-symmetric potential, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 51 (2014), 761-798. doi: 10.1007/s00526-013-0694-5. Google Scholar [3] A. Bahri and P. Lions, On the existence of a positive solution of semilinear elliptic equations in unbounded domains, Ann. Ins. H. 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