Existence of positive and sign-changing solutions to a coupled elliptic system with mixed nonlinearity growth (Q2195869)

This article is concerned with the study of the solitary wave solutions to a Schrödinger system featuring quadratic and cubic nonlinearity arising from optics theory. The authors discuss first the existence and nonexistence of nontrivial solutions, in the focusing and defocusing cases. Next, the existence of multiple nontrivial solutions and their Morse index is achieved by using the Crandall-Rabinowitz local bifurcation theorems. Further, the continuous dependence on the parameter and asymptotic behavior of positive ground state solutions in the focusing case are also derived. Particularly, the behavior of positive solutions observed in previous physical phenomena in [\textit{O. Bang} et al., ``Bright spatial solitons in defocusing kerr media supported by cascaded nonlinearities'', Opt. Lett. 22, No. 22, 1680--1682 (1997), \url{doi:10.1364/OL.22.001680}; ``Two-dimensional solitary waves in media with quadratic and cubic nonlinearity'', Phys. Rev. E 58, No. 4, 5057--5069 (1998), \url{doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.58.5057}] is mathematically demonstrated. In the last part of the article the existence of sign-changing solutions is proven.