Construction of solutions for a critical elliptic system of Hamiltonian type
Yuxia Guo, Congzheng Xuanyuan, Tingfeng Yuan
TL;DR
This work tackles the existence of infinitely many bubbling solutions for a nonlinear elliptic Hamiltonian system with critical growth on $\mathbb{R}^N$. It develops a Lyapunov–Schmidt finite-dimensional reduction combined with local Pohozaev identities and Green's representation to control bubble locations and corrections. Under $N\ge 5$, $p,q>1$ on the critical hyperbola and a nondegenerate critical point of $r^2V(r,y'')$, the authors construct bubbling solutions with energy that can be made arbitrarily large, with the bubble count $m$ serving as a parameter. The approach circumvents compactness issues by locating bubbles via local Pohozaev constraints, leading to an infinite family of positive solutions concentrating near a stable critical point of the potential, and it extends multiplicity results to coupled Hamiltonian systems with critical exponents. The results broaden the understanding of critical elliptic systems and provide a framework for analyzing energy blow-up and concentration phenomena in noncompact settings.
Abstract
We consider the following nonlinear elliptic system of Hamiltonian type with critical exponents: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -Δu + V(|y'|,y'')\, u = |v|^{p-1}v, & \text{in } \mathbb{R}^N,\newline -Δv + V(|y'|,y'')\, v = |u|^{q-1}u, & \text{in } \mathbb{R}^N, \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $(y', y'') \in \mathbb{R}^2 \times \mathbb{R}^{N-2}$, $V(|y'|, y'') \not\equiv 0$ is a bounded, nonnegative function on $\mathbb{R}_+ \times \mathbb{R}^{N-2}$ and $p, q > 1$ lie on the critical hyperbola: \[ \frac{1}{p+1} + \frac{1}{q+1} = \frac{N-2}{N}. \] By applying the finite-dimensional reduction method and local Pohozaev identities combined with the Green representation formula and technical analysis, we show that, under the assumptions that $N \ge 5$, $(p,q)$ lies in a certain admissible range, and $r^2 V(r, y'')$ has a stable critical point, the above problem admits infinitely many solutions whose energy can be made arbitrarily large.
