Critical polyharmonic systems and optimal partitions

Abstract

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>We establish the existence of solutions to a weakly-coupled competitive system of polyharmonic equations in <inline-formula><tex-math id="M1">\begin{document}$ \mathbb{R}^N $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> which are invariant under a group of conformal diffeomorphisms, and study the behavior of least energy solutions as the coupling parameters tend to <inline-formula><tex-math id="M2">\begin{document}$ -\infty $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>. We show that the supports of the limiting profiles of their components are pairwise disjoint smooth domains and solve a nonlinear optimal partition problem of <inline-formula><tex-math id="M3">\begin{document}$ \mathbb R^N $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>. We give a detailed description of the shape of these domains.</p>