Standing wave solutions of Schrödinger systems with discontinuous nonlinearity in anisotropic media (Q2468998)

Consider the following coupled elliptic systems in \(\mathbb{R}^N (N\geq{3})\): \[ -\Delta u_1+a(x)u_1= f(x,u_1u_2) \quad\text{in }\mathbb R^N , \] \[ -\Delta u_2+b(x)u_2= g(x,u_1u_2) \quad\text{in }\mathbb R^N. \] The author establishes the existence of an entire solution for a class of stationary Schrödinger systems with subcritical discontinuous nonlinearities and lower bounded potentials that blow up at infinity. The proof is based on the critical point theory in the sense of Clarke and Chang's version of the mountain pass lemma for locally Lipschitz functionals. The result generalizes in a nonsmooth framework a result of Rabinowitz (1992) related to entire solutions of the Schrödinger equation.