Solutions for a critical elliptic system with periodic boundary condition

TL;DR

This paper investigates the existence of bubbling solutions for a nonlinear critical Schrödinger system with periodic boundary conditions, introducing new methods to handle the challenges posed by periodicity and coupling terms.

Contribution

It proves the existence of single bubbling solutions under weaker conditions than previous work and constructs various solution forms considering the coupling effects.

Findings

Existence of single bubbling solutions under weaker conditions.

Construction of multiple solution forms due to coupling terms.

Development of new techniques using Green's functions for periodic boundary conditions.

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the following nonlinear critical Schr\"odinger system: \begin{eqnarray*}\begin{cases} -\Delta u=K_1(y)u^{2^*-1}+\frac{1}{2} u^{\frac{2^*}{2}-1}v^\frac{2^*}{2}, \,\,\,\,\,y\in\Omega,\,\,\,\,\,u>0,\cr -\Delta v=K_2(y)v^{2^*-1}+\frac{1}{2} v^{\frac{2^*}{2}-1}u^\frac{2^*}{2}, \,\,\,\,\,y\in\Omega,\,\,\,\,\,v>0,\cr u(y'+Le_j,y'')=u(y), \,\,\,\,\,\frac{\partial u(y'+Le_j,y'')}{\partial y_j}=\frac{\partial u(y)}{\partial y_j}, \,\,\,\,\,if\,\, y'=-\frac{L}{2}e_j,\,\,\,j=1, \ldots, k,\cr v(y'+Le_j,y'')=v(y), \,\,\,\,\,\frac{\partial v(y'+Le_j,y'')}{\partial y_j}=\frac{\partial v(y)}{\partial y_j}, \,\,\,\,\,if\,\, y'=-\frac{L}{2}e_j,\,\,\,j=1, \ldots, k,\cr u,v \to 0 \,\,as \,\,|y''|\to \infty, \end{cases} \end{eqnarray*} where $K_1(y),\,K_2(y)$ satisfy some periodic conditions and $\Omega$ is a strip. Under some conditions which are weaker than Li, Wei and Xu(J. Reine Angew. Math. 743: 163-211, 2018), we prove that there exists a single bubbling solution for the above system. Moreover, as the appearance of the coupling terms, we construct different forms of solutions, which makes it more interesting. Since there are periodic boundary conditions, this expansion for the difference between the standard bubbles and the approximate bubble can not be obtained by using the comparison theorem as one usually does for Dirichlet boundary condition. To overcome this difficulty, we will use the Green's function of $-\Delta$ in $\Omega$ with periodic boundary conditions which helps us find the approximate bubble. Due to the lack of the Sobolev inequality, we will introduce a suitable weighted space to carry out the reduction.