# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2021, 41(5): 2269-2283. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020361

## Liouville type theorems for fractional and higher-order fractional systems

 1 School of Mathematics and Information Science, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510405, China 2 Institute of Applied Mathematics, AMSS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China 3 Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China 4 University of Chinese Academy of sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Received  May 2020 Revised  August 2020 Published  May 2021 Early access  October 2020

Fund Project: D. Cao was supported by NNSF of China (No.11831009) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.QYZDJ-SSW-SYS021)

In this paper, we first establish decay estimates for the fractional and higher-order fractional Hénon-Lane-Emden systems by using a nonlocal average and integral estimates, which deduce a result of non-existence. Next, we apply the method of scaling spheres introduced in [16] to derive a Liouville type theorem. We also construct an interesting example on super $\frac{\alpha}{2}$-harmonic functions (Proposition 1.2).

Citation: Daomin Cao, Guolin Qin. Liouville type theorems for fractional and higher-order fractional systems. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2021, 41 (5) : 2269-2283. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020361
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