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    Existence and stability of standing waves for coupled nonlinear Hartree type equations

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    We study existence and stability of standing waves for coupled nonlinear Hartree type equations itψj=Δψj+k=1m(Wψkp)ψjp2ψj, -i\frac{\partial}{\partial t}\psi_j=\Delta \psi_j+\sum_{k=1}^m \left(W\star |\psi_k|^p \right)|\psi_j|^{p-2}\psi_j, where ψj:RN×RC\psi_j:\mathbb{R}^N\times \mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{C} for j=1,,mj=1, \ldots, m and the potential W:R[0,)W:\mathbb{R}\to [0, \infty) satisfies certain assumptions. Our method relies on a variational characterization of standing waves based on minimization of the energy when L2L^2 norms of component waves are prescribed. We obtain existence and stability results for two and three-component systems and for a certain range of pp. In particular, our argument works in the case when W(x)=xαW(x)=|x|^{-\alpha} for some $\alpha>0.
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