# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

November  2015, 14(6): 2431-2451. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.2431

## Regularity and nonexistence of solutions for a system involving the fractional Laplacian

 1 School of Mathematics, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

Received  March 2015 Revised  July 2015 Published  September 2015

We consider a system involving the fractional Laplacian \begin{eqnarray} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta)^{\alpha_{1}/2}u=u^{p_{1}}v^{q_{1}} & \mbox{in}\ \mathbb{R}^N_+,\\ (-\Delta)^{\alpha_{2}/2}v=u^{p_{2}}v^{q_{2}} &\mbox{in}\ \mathbb{R}^N_+,\\ u=v=0,&\mbox{in}\ \mathbb{R}^N\backslash\mathbb{R}^N_+, \end{array} \right. \end{eqnarray} where $\alpha_{i}\in (0,2)$, $p_{i},q_{i}>0$, $i=1,2$. Based on the uniqueness of $\alpha$-harmonic function [9] on half space, the equivalence between (1) and integral equations \begin{eqnarray} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} u(x)=C_{1}x_{N}^{\frac{\alpha_{1}}{2}}+\displaystyle\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{N}}G^{1}_{\infty}(x,y)u^{p_{1}}(y)v^{q_{1}}(y)dy,\\ v(x)=C_{2}x_{N}^{\frac{\alpha_{2}}{2}}+\displaystyle\int_{\mathbb{R}_{+}^{N}}G^{2}_{\infty}(x,y)u^{p_{2}}(y)v^{q_{2}}(y)dy. \end{array} \right. \end{eqnarray} are derived. Based on this result we deal with integral equations (2) instead of (1) and obtain the regularity. Especially, by the method of moving planes in integral forms which is established by Chen-Li-Ou [12], we obtain the nonexistence of positive solutions of integral equations (2) under only local integrability assumptions.
Citation: De Tang, Yanqin Fang. Regularity and nonexistence of solutions for a system involving the fractional Laplacian. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2015, 14 (6) : 2431-2451. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2015.14.2431
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