Existence and nonexistence of entire positive solutions of semilinear elliptic systems

Abstract

We show that entire positive solutions exist for the semilinear elliptic system Δu = p(x)vα, Δv = q(x)uβ on RN, N ≥ 3, for positive α and β, provided that the nonnegative functions p and q are continuous and satisfy appropriate decay conditions at infinity. We also show that entire solutions fail to exist if the functions p and q are of slow decay. © 2002 Elsevier Science (USA).