# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

June  2014, 34(6): 2469-2479. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2014.34.2469

## A new critical curve for the Lane-Emden system

 1 Departamento de Ingeniería Matemática and CMM, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 170 Correo 3, Santiago, Chile 2 Institut Camille Jordan UMR CNRS 5208, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France 3 School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

Received  February 2013 Revised  May 2013 Published  December 2013

We study stable positive radially symmetric solutions for the Lane-Emden system $-\Delta u=v^p$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $-\Delta v=u^q$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$, where $p,q\geq 1$. We obtain a new critical curve that optimally describes the existence of such solutions.
Citation: Wenjing Chen, Louis Dupaigne, Marius Ghergu. A new critical curve for the Lane-Emden system. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2014, 34 (6) : 2469-2479. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2014.34.2469
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