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Classification of radial solutions for elliptic systems driven by the $k$-Hessian operator

Analysis of PDEs 2020-02-28 v1

Abstract

We are concerned with non-constant positive radial solutions of the system {Sk(D2u)=umvp\mboxinΩ,Sk(D2v)=uqvs\mboxinΩ, \left\{ \begin{aligned} S_k(D^2 u)&=|\nabla u|^{m} v^{p}&&\quad\mbox{ in }\Omega,\\ S_k(D^2 v)&=|\nabla u|^{q} v^{s} &&\quad\mbox{ in }\Omega, \end{aligned} \right. where Sk(D2u)S_k(D^2u) is the kk-Hessian operator of uC2(Ω)u\in C^2(\Omega) (1kN1\leq k\leq N) and ΩRN\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N (N2)(N\geq 2) is either a ball or the whole space. The exponents satisfy q>0q>0, m,s0m,s\geq 0, ps0p\geq s\geq 0 and (km)(ks)pq(k-m)(k-s)\neq pq. In the case where Ω\Omega is a ball, we classify all the positive radial solutions according to their behavior at the boundary. Further, we consider the case Ω=RN\Omega=\mathbb{R}^N and find that the above system admits non-constant positive radial solutions if and only if 0m<k0\leq m<k and pq<(km)(ks)pq < (k-m)(k-s). Using arguments from three component cooperative and irreducible dynamical systems we deduce the behavior at infinity of such solutions.

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@article{arxiv.2002.12170,
  title  = {Classification of radial solutions for elliptic systems driven by the $k$-Hessian operator},
  author = {Marius Ghergu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.12170},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

21 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1808.00407

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