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Regularity of the extremal solutions associated to elliptic systems

Analysis of PDEs 2014-03-21 v2

Abstract

We examine the two elliptic systems given by [(G)_{\lambda,\gamma} \quad -\Delta u = \lambda f'(u) g(v), \quad -\Delta v = \gamma f(u) g'(v) \quad in Ω \Omega,] and [(H)_{\lambda,\gamma} \quad -\Delta u = \lambda f(u) g'(v), \quad -\Delta v = \gamma f'(u) g(v) \quad in Ω \Omega},] with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions and where λ,γ \lambda,\gamma are positive parameters. We show that for arbitrary nonlinearities ff and gg that the extremal solutions associated with (G)λ,γ (G)_{\lambda,\gamma} are bounded provided Ω \Omega is a convex domain in RN \mathbb R^N where N3 N \le 3. In the case of a radial domain we show the extremal solutions are bounded provided N<10 N <10. The extremal solutions associated with (H)λ,γ (H)_{\lambda,\gamma} are bounded in the case where f f is arbitrary, g(v)=(v+1)q g(v)=(v+1)^q where 1<q< 1 <q<\infty and where Ω \Omega is a bounded convex domain in RN \mathbb R^N, N3 N \le 3. Results are also obtained in higher dimensions for (G)λ,γ (G)_{\lambda,\gamma} and (H)λ,γ(H)_{\lambda,\gamma} for the case of explicit nonlinearities of the form f(u)=(u+1)p f(u)=(u+1)^p and g(v)=(v+1)q g(v)=(v+1)^q.

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@article{arxiv.1206.2629,
  title  = {Regularity of the extremal solutions associated to elliptic systems},
  author = {Craig Cowan and Mostafa Fazly},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.2629},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Minor revision. Comments are welcome. Submitted June 10, 2012. For updates please see http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~fazly/research.html