In this paper, we study the existence and concentration behaviour of multi-peak standing waves for a singularly perturbed Davey–Stewartson system, which arises in the theory of shallow water waves. For this purpose, we first give a sharp threshold of the existence of ground-state solutions to the related limiting problem. Next, combining the penalization method and the regularity theory of elliptic equations, we construct a family of positive solutions concentrating around any prescribed finite set of local minima, possibly degenerate, of the potential. A feature of this analysis is that we do not need any uniqueness or non-degeneracy conditions for the limiting equation. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first study dealing with the study of concentrating solutions for Davey–Stewartson systems. We emphasize that with respect to the classical Schrödinger equation, the presence of a singular integral operator in the Davey–Stewartson system forces the implementation of new ideas to obtain the existence of multi-peak solutions.

Let ${{T}_{\Omega }}$ be the singular integral operator with kernel $\left( \Omega \left( x \right) \right)/{{\left| x \right|}^{n}}$, where $\Omega $ is homogeneous of degree zero, has mean value zero, and belongs to ${{L}^{q}}\left( {{S}^{n-1}} \right)$ for some $q\,\in \,\left( 1,\,\infty \right]$. In this paper, the authors establish the compactness on weighted ${{L}^{p}}$ spaces and the Morrey spaces, for the commutator generated by $\text{CMO}\left( {{\mathbb{R}}^{n}} \right)$ function and ${{T}_{\Omega }}$. The associated maximal operator and the discrete maximal operator are also considered.

Let $b\,\in \,\text{BMO}\left( {{\mathbb{R}}^{n}} \right)$ and ${{T}_{\Omega }}$ be the singular integral operator with kernel $\Omega \left( x \right)/{{\left| x \right|}^{n}}$, where $\Omega$ is homogeneous of degree zero, integrable, and has mean value zero on the unit sphere ${{S}^{n-1}}$. In this paper, using Fourier transform estimates and approximation to the operator ${{T}_{\Omega }}$ by integral operators with smooth kernels, it is proved that if $b\,\in \,\text{CMO}\left( {{\mathbb{R}}^{n}} \right)$ and $\Omega$ satisfies certain minimal size condition, then the commutator generated by $b$ and ${{T}_{\Omega }}$ is a compact operator on ${{L}^{p}}\left( {{\mathbb{R}}^{n}} \right)$ for appropriate index $p$. The associated maximal operator is also considered.

Let 𝒳 be a space of homogeneous type in the sense of Coifman and Weiss. In this paper, two weighted estimates related to weights are established for singular integral operators with nonsmooth kernels via a new sharp maximal operator associated with a generalized approximation to the identity. As applications, the weighted Lp(𝒳) and weighted endpoint estimates with general weights are obtained for singular integral operators with nonsmooth kernels, their commutators with BMO (𝒳) functions, and associated maximal operators. Some applications to holomorphic functional calculi of elliptic operators and Schrödinger operators are also presented.

The spectra of the Toeplitz operators on the weighted Hardy space ${{H}^{2}}\,(W\,d\theta \,/\,2\pi )$ and the Hardy space ${{H}^{p}}\,(d\theta \,/\,2\pi )$, and the singular integral operators on the Lebesgue space ${{L}^{2}}\,(d\theta \,/\,2\pi )$ are studied. For example, the theorems of Brown-Halmos type and Hartman-Wintner type are studied.