Variational and stability properties of coupled NLS equations on the star graph

Abstract

We consider variational and stability properties of a system of two coupled nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations on the star graph $\Gamma$ with the $\delta$ coupling at the vertex of $\Gamma$. The first part is devoted to the proof of an existence of the ground state as the minimizer of the constrained energy in the cubic case. This result extends the one obtained recently for the coupled NLS equations on the line. In the second part, we study stability properties of several families of standing waves in the case of a general power nonlinearity. In particular, we study one-component standing waves $e^{i\omega t}(\Phi_1(x), 0)$ and $e^{i\omega t}(0, \Phi_2(x))$. Moreover, we study two-component standing waves $e^{i\omega t}(\Phi(x), \Phi(x))$ for the case of power nonlinearity depending on a unique power parameter $p$. To our knowledge, these are the first results on variational and stability properties of coupled NLS equations on graphs.