# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2015, 14(3): 1169-1182. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.1169

## An elliptic system and the critical hyperbola

 1 Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, CEP 13083-970 2 Universidade Federal da Paríba, Departamento de Matemática, João Pessoa-PB, CEP 58051-900, Brazil 3 Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IMECC, Departamento de Matemática, Caixa Postal 6065, CEP 13083-970, Campinas, SP

Received  June 2014 Revised  November 2014 Published  March 2015

We consider a nonlinear elliptic system of Lane-Emden type in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, namely \begin{eqnarray} \Delta u+v| v| ^{p-1}=0, \quad x\in\mathbb{R}^{n},\\ \Delta v+u| u| ^{q-1}+f=0, \quad x\in\mathbb{R}^{n}. \end{eqnarray} Our region for $(p,q)$ covers in particular the critical and supercritical cases with respect to the critical hyperbola $\frac{1}{p+1}+\frac{1} {q+1}=\frac{n-2}{n}.$ We prove existence of solutions for $f\in L^d (\mathbb{R}^n)$, by means of a fixed point technique in the Lebesgue space $L^{r_1}\times L^{r_2}$. Our results allow unbounded solutions without $H^{s}$-regularity. The solutions are shown to be classical and positive when $f$ is smooth enough and positive. Moreover, if $f$ is radial or odd (or even), we prove that the solutions preserve these properties. Also, it is shown that the solutions $(u,v)$ are nonradial when $f$ is nonradial.
Citation: Lucas C. F. Ferreira, Everaldo Medeiros, Marcelo Montenegro. An elliptic system and the critical hyperbola. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2015, 14 (3) : 1169-1182. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.1169
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