Positive radial solutions for coupled Schrödinger system with critical exponent in $\R^N\,(N\geq5)$

Yan-fang Peng, Hong-yu Ye

Published 2013-08-14, updated 2013-08-15Version 2

We study the following coupled Schr\"odinger system \ds -\Delta u+u=u^{2^*-1}+\be u^{\frac{2^*}{2}-1}v^{\frac{2^*}{2}}+\la_1u^{\al-1}, &x\in \R^N, \ds -\Delta v+v=v^{2^*-1}+\be u^{\frac{2^*}{2}}v^{\frac{2^*}{2}-1}+\la_2v^{r-1}, &x\in \R^N, u,v > 0, &x\in \R^N, where $N\geq 5, \la_1,\la_2>0,\be\neq 0, 2<\al,r<2^*,2^*\triangleq \frac{2N}{N-2}.$ Note that the nonlinearity and the coupling terms are both critical. Using the Mountain Pass Theorem, Ekeland's variational principle and Nehari mainfold, we show that this critical system has a positive radial solution for positive $\be$ and some negative $\be$ respectively.