We consider the problemwhere is a smooth and bounded domain, , . We prove that this system has a least-energy solution which develops, as , a single spike layer located near the boundary, in striking contrast with the result in [37] for the single Schrödinger equation. Moreover the unique peak approaches the most curved part of , i.e., where the boundary mean curvature assumes its maximum. Thus this elliptic system, even though it is a Dirichlet problem, acts more like a Neumann problem for the single-equation case. The technique employed is based on the so-called energy method, which consists in the derivation of an asymptotic expansion for the energy of the solutions in powers of up to sixth order; from the analysis of the main terms of the energy expansion we derive the location of the peak in .
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D’Aprile, Teresa. Locating the boundary peaks of least-energy solutions to a singularly perturbed Dirichlet problem. Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Serie 5, Volume 5 (2006) no. 2, pp. 219-259. http://archive.numdam.org/item/ASNSP_2006_5_5_2_219_0/
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