Symmetry and non-existence of solutions for a nonlinear system involving the fractional Laplacian

By Ran Zhuo, Wenxiong CHEN *, Xuewei Cui, Zixia Yuan. 2015

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In this paper, we consider the following system of pseudo-differential nonlinear equations in $R^n$ \begin{equation} \left\{\begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta)^{\alpha/2} u_i (x)= f_i( u_1(x), \cdots u_m(x)), & i=1, \cdots, m, \\ u_i \geq 0 , & i=1, \cdots, m,             （1） \end{array} \right. \label{b1} \end{equation} where $\alpha$ is any real number between $0$ and $2$. We obtain radial symmetry in the critical case and non-existence in the subcritical case for positive solutions. To this end, we first establish the equivalence between (1) and the corresponding integral system $$ \left\{\begin{array}{ll} u_i(x) = \int_{R^n} \frac{c_n}{|x-y|^{n-\alpha}} f_i( u_1(y), \cdots, u_m(y)), & i=1, \cdots, m, \\ u_i(x) \geq 0, & i=1, \cdots, m. \end{array} \right. $$ A new idea is introduced in the proof, which may hopefully be applied to many other problems. Combining this equivalence with the existing results on the integral system, we obtained much more general results on the qualitative properties of the solutions for (1).

Subfields: Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Physics

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