A coupled Hartree system with Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev critical exponent: existence and multiplicity of high energy positive solutions

Abstract

This paper deals with a coupled Hartree system with Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev critical exponent \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta u+(V_1(x)+\lambda_1)u=\mu_1(|x|^{-4}*u^{2})u+\beta (|x|^{-4}*v^{2})u, \ \ &x\in R^N, -\Delta v+(V_2(x)+\lambda_2)v=\mu_2(|x|^{-4}*v^{2})v+\beta (|x|^{-4}*u^{2})v, \ \ &x\in R^N, \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $N\geq 5$, $\lambda_1$, $\lambda_2\geq 0$ with $\lambda_1+\lambda_2\neq 0$, $V_1(x), V_{2}(x)\in L^{\frac{N}{2}}(R^N)$ are nonnegative functions and $\mu_1$, $\mu_2$, $\beta$ are positive constants. Such system arises from mathematical models in Bose-Einstein condensates theory and nonlinear optics. By variational methods combined with degree theory, we prove some results about the existence and multiplicity of high energy positive solutions under the hypothesis $\beta>\max\{\mu_1,\mu_2\}$