Pinwheel solutions to Schr\"odinger systems

Abstract

We establish the existence of positive segregated solutions for competitive nonlinear Schr\"odinger systems in the presence of an external trapping potential, which have the property that each component is obtained from the previous one by a rotation, and we study their behavior as the forces of interaction become very small or very large. As a consequence, we obtain optimal partitions for the Schr\"odinger equation by sets that are linearly isometric to each other.