Multiple solutions to weakly coupled supercritical elliptic systems

Abstract

We study a weakly coupled supercritical elliptic system of the form \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u = |x_2|^\gamma \left(\mu_{1}|u|^{p-2}u+\lambda\alpha |u|^{\alpha-2}|v|^{\beta}u \right) & \text{in }\Omega,\\ -\Delta v = |x_2|^\gamma \left(\mu_{2}|v|^{p-2}v+\lambda\beta |u|^{\alpha}|v|^{\beta-2}v \right) & \text{in }\Omega,\\ u=v=0 & \text{on }\partial\Omega, \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $\Omega$ is a bounded smooth domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$, $N\geq 3$, $\gamma\geq 0$, $\mu_{1},\mu_{2}>0$, $\lambda\in\mathbb{R}$, $\alpha, \beta>1$, $\alpha+\beta = p$, and $p\geq 2^{*}:=\frac{2N}{N-2}$. We assume that $\Omega$ is invariant under the action of a group $G$ of linear isometries, $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ is the sum $F\oplus F^\perp$ of $G$-invariant linear subspaces, and $x_2$ is the projection onto $F^\perp$ of the point $x\in\Omega$. Then, under some assumptions on $\Omega$ and $F$, we establish the existence of infinitely many fully nontrivial $G$-invariant solutions to this system for $p\geq 2^*$ up to some value which depends on the symmetries and on $\gamma$. Our results apply, in particular, to the system with pure power nonlinearity ($\gamma=0$), and yield new existence and multiplicity results for the supercritical H\'enon-type equation $$-\Delta w = |x_2|^\gamma \,|w|^{p-2}w \quad\text{in }\Omega, \qquad w=0 \quad\text{on }\partial\Omega.$$