# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

November  2019, 12(7): 1905-1927. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2019125

## Global bifurcations and a priori bounds of positive solutions for coupled nonlinear Schrödinger Systems

 1 School of Mathematical Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China 2 School of Mathematical Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China 3 HLM, CEMS, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China 4 School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

* Corresponding author: Zhitao Zhang

Received  September 2017 Revised  April 2018 Published  December 2018

Fund Project: Dedicated to the 70th birthday of Professor E. N. Dancer. Research supported by NSFC(11771428, 11871129, 11601353, 11325107) and Beijing Natural Science Foundation(1174013)

In this paper, we consider the following coupled elliptic system
 $$$\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u+\lambda_1 u = \mu_1 u^3+\beta uv^2-\gamma v &\text{in } \mathbb{R}^N, \\ -\Delta v+\lambda_2 v = \mu_2 v^3+\beta vu^2-\gamma u &\text{in } \mathbb{R}^N, \\ u(x), v(x)\rightarrow 0 \text{ as } \vert x\vert\rightarrow+\infty. \end{array} \right.\nonumber$$$
Under symmetric assumptions
 $\lambda_1 = \lambda_2, \mu_1 = \mu_2$
, we determine the number of
 $\gamma$
-bifurcations for each
 $\beta\in(-1, +\infty)$
, and study the behavior of global
 $\gamma$
-bifurcation branches in
 $[-1, 0]\times H_r^1\left( \mathbb{R} ^N\right)\times H_r^1\left( \mathbb{R} ^N\right)$
. Moreover, several results for
 $\gamma = 0$
, such as priori bounds, are of independent interests, which are improvements of corresponding theorems in [6] and [35].
Citation: Guowei Dai, Rushun Tian, Zhitao Zhang. Global bifurcations and a priori bounds of positive solutions for coupled nonlinear Schrödinger Systems. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2019, 12 (7) : 1905-1927. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2019125
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Schematic diagrams of global $\gamma$-bifurcations for $\beta\in[\beta_{k+1}, \beta_k)$
Schematic diagrams of β-bifurcation branches
Global bifurcation diagram in the symmetric case µ1 = µ2 = 1
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