Systems of coupled Schr\"odinger equations with sign-changing nonlinearities via classical Nehari manifold approach

Abstract

We propose existence and multiplicity results for the system of Schr\"odinger equations with sign-changing nonlinearities in bounded domains or in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^N$. In the bounded domain we utilize the classical approach via the Nehari manifold, which is (under our assumptions) a differentiable manifold of class $\mathcal{C}^1$ and the Fountain theorem by Bartsch. In the space $\mathbb{R}^N$ we additionally need to assume the $\mathbb{Z}^N$-periodicity of potentials and our proofs are based on the concentration-compactness lemma by Lions and the Lusternik-Schnirelmann values.