# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

September  2018, 17(5): 1749-1764. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018083

## On existence and nonexistence of positive solutions of an elliptic system with coupled terms

 1 Institute of Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210023, China 2 Jiangsu Key Laboratory for NSLSCS, School of Mathematical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023, China

Received  April 2017 Revised  December 2017 Published  April 2018

Fund Project: This research was supported by NSF (11471164, 11671209) of China.

This paper is concerned with the elliptic system
 $\begin{cases}-{\triangle u} = (q+1)u^qv^{p+1},~~ u>0~ in~ R^n,\\-{\triangle v} = (p+1)v^pu^{q+1},~~ v>0~in ~R^n,\end{cases}$
where
 $n ≥ 3$
,
 $p,q>0$
and
 $\max\{p,q\} ≥ 1$
. We discuss the nonexistence of positive solutions in subcritical case and stable solutions in supercritical case, the necessary and sufficient conditions of classification in the critical case, and the Joseph-Lundgren-type condition for existence of local stable solutions.
Citation: Yayun Li, Yutian Lei. On existence and nonexistence of positive solutions of an elliptic system with coupled terms. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2018, 17 (5) : 1749-1764. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018083
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