%0 Journal Article %A Nicholas D. Alikakos %A Giorgio Fusco %T A maximum principle for systems with variational structure and an application to standing waves %J Journal of the European Mathematical Society %D 2015 %P 1547-1567 %V 17 %N 7 %I mathdoc %U http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.4171/jems/538/ %R 10.4171/jems/538 %F JEMS_2015_17_7_a0