Ground States of One-Dimensional Fermionic Schrödinger Systems Near a Critical Exponent

Abstract

We study ground states of the fermionic nonlinear Schrödinger system $J_2(p)$ in $\mathbb{R}$, where $p>1$ denotes a polynomial exponent of the nonlinear term. It is known that the system $J_2(p)$ admits ground states for any $1<p<2$, while there is no ground state for $J_2(2)$. We prove that there is no ground state of $J_2(p)$ as $p\searrow 2$, which addresses the special case of Conjecture 5 in [D. Gontier, M. Lewin and F. Q. Nazar, ARMA, 2021]. The refined limiting profile of ground states for $J_2(p)$ is also analyzed as $p\nearrow 2$, which shows that the corresponding density admits exactly two bumps whose distance goes up to infinity as $p\nearrow 2$.

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