Existence and nonexistence of entire positive solutions for (
          p
          ,
          q
          ) -Laplacian elliptic system with a gradient term

Zhong Bo Fang; Su-Cheol Yi

doi:10.1186/1687-2770-2013-18

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Existence and nonexistence of entire positive solutions for $(p, q)$ -Laplacian elliptic system with a gradient term

Zhong Bo Fang¹Email author and
Su-Cheol Yi²

Boundary Value Problems20132013:18

https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-2770-2013-18

Received: 10 August 2012
Accepted: 9 January 2013
Published: 5 March 2013

Abstract

This work is concerned with the entire positive solutions for a $(p, q)$ -Laplacian elliptic system of equations with a gradient term. We find the sufficient condition for nonexistence of entire large positive solutions and existence of infinitely many entire solutions, which are large or bounded.

Keywords

Elliptic System
Quasiconformal Mapping
Nondecreasing Function
Slow Decay
Fast Decay

1 Introduction

In this paper, we consider a class of

(p, q)

-Laplacian elliptic system of equations with a gradient term

{\begin{matrix} div ({| \nabla u |}^{p - 2} \nabla u) + m_{1} (| x |) {| \nabla u |}^{p - 1} = a (| x |) f (u, v), in R^{N}, \\ div ({| \nabla v |}^{p - 2} \nabla v) + m_{2} (| x |) {| \nabla v |}^{q - 1} = b (| x |) g (u, v), in R^{N}, \end{matrix}

(1.1)

where $N > 2$ , $p \geq 2$ , $q \geq 2$ , the nonlinearities $f, g : [0, \infty) \times [0, \infty) \to (0, \infty)$ are positive, continuous and nondecreasing functions for each variable, $m_{1} (| x |)$ and $m_{2} (| x |)$ are continuous functions, and the potentials $a, b \in C (R^{N})$ are c-positive functions (or circumferentially positive) in a domain $Ω \subset R^{N}$ which are nonnegative in Ω and satisfy the following:

If $x_{0} \in Ω$ and $a (x_{0}) = 0$ , then there exists a domain $Ω_{0}$ such that $x_{0} \in Ω_{0} \subset Ω$ and $a (x) > 0$ for all $x \in \partial Ω_{0}$ .

Problem (1.1) arises in the theory of quasiregular and quasiconformal mappings, stochastic control and non-Newtonian fluids, etc. In the non-Newtonian theory, the quantity $(p, q)$ is a characteristic of the medium. Media with $(p, q) > (2, 2)$ are called dilatant fluids, while $(p, q) < (2, 2)$ are called pseudoplastics. If $(p, q) = (2, 2)$ , they are Newtonian fluids.

We are concerned only with the entire positive solutions of problem (1.1). An entire large (or explosive) solution of problem (1.1) means a pair of functions $(u, v) \in C^{1 + θ} (R^{N}) \times C^{1 + θ} (R^{N})$ for $θ \in (0, 1)$ solving problem (1.1) in the weak sense and $u (x) \to \infty$ , $v (x) \to \infty$ as $| x | \to \infty$ .

In recent years, existence and nonexistence of entire solutions for the semilinear elliptic system

{\begin{matrix} △ u + f (x, u, v) = 0, in R^{N}, \\ △ v + f (x, u, v) = 0, in R^{N}, \end{matrix}

have been studied by many authors; see [1–3] and the references therein. For example, Ghergu and Radulescu [1], Lair and Wood [2], Kawano and Kusano [3] discussed the entire solutions under proper conditions. For other works for a single equation, we refer to [4, 5] and the references therein. Moreover, a comprehensive discussion on entire solutions for a large class of semilinear systems

{\begin{matrix} △ u = a (| x |) f (v), in R^{N}, \\ △ v = b (| x |) g (u), in R^{N} \end{matrix}

can be found in Ghergu and Radulescu [1]. Later, Yang [6] extended their results to a class of quasilinear elliptic systems. To our best knowledge, problem (1.1) of equations with a gradient term has not been sufficiently investigated. Only a few papers have dealt with this problem (1.1). In [7], Ghergu and Radulescu studied the existence of blow-up solutions for the system

{\begin{matrix} △ u + | \nabla u | = a (| x |) f (v), in Ω, \\ △ v + | \nabla v | = b (| x |) g (u), in Ω . \end{matrix}

They proved that boundary blow-up solutions fail to exist if f and g are sublinear, whereas this result holds if

Ω = R^{N}

is bounded and a, b are slow decay at infinity. They also showed the existence of infinitely blow-up solutions in

Ω = R^{N}

if a, b are of fast decay and f, g satisfy a sublinear-type growth condition at infinity. In [8], Cirstea and Radulescu studied a related problem. Recently, Zhang and Liu [9] studied the semilinear elliptic systems with a gradient term

{\begin{matrix} △ u + | \nabla u | = a (| x |) f (u, v), in R^{N}, \\ △ v + | \nabla v | = b (| x |) g (u, v), in R^{N} \end{matrix}

and obtained the sufficient condition of nonexistence and existence of positive entire solutions. Furthermore, for the single equation with a gradient term, we read [10–12] and the references therein.

Motivated by the results of the above cited papers, we study the nonexistence and existence of positive entire solutions for system (1.1) deeply, and the results of the semilinear systems are extended to the quasilinear ones. In [13], the authors studied the existence and nonexistence of entire large positive solutions of $(p, q)$ -Laplacian system (1.1) with $f (u, v) = φ (v)$ , $g (u, v) = ψ (u)$ . However, they obtained different results under the suitable conditions. In this paper, our main purpose is to establish new results under new conditions for system (1.1). Roughly speaking, we find that the entire large positive solutions fail to exist if f, g are sublinear and a, b have fast decay at infinity, while f, g satisfy some growth conditions at infinity, and a, b are of slow decay or fast decay at infinity, then the system has many infinitely entire solutions, which are large or bounded. Unfortunately, it remains unknown whether an analogous result holds for system (1.1) with different gradient power $m_{1} (| x |) {| \nabla u |}^{α}$ , $m_{2} (| x |) {| \nabla u |}^{α}$ for $0 < α < p - 1$ .

2 Main results and proof

We now state and prove the main results of this paper.

In order to describe our results conveniently, let us define

Φ_{p} (x) = {| x |}^{p - 2} x

,

Φ_{q} (x) = {| x |}^{q - 2} x

and let

Φ_{p^{'}} (x)

,

Φ_{q^{'}} (x)

denote inverse functions of

Φ_{p}

and

Φ_{q}

, where

p^{'} = \frac{p}{p - 1}

,

q^{'} = \frac{q}{q - 1}

. Moreover, we define

where $r > 0$ .

Firstly, we give a nonexistence result of a positive entire radial large solution of system (1.1).

Theorem 1 Suppose that f and g satisfy

max {sup_{s + t \geq 1} \frac{f (s, t)}{{(s + t)}^{m - 1}}, sup_{s + t \geq 1} \frac{g (s, t)}{{(s + t)}^{m - 1}}} < + \infty,

(2.1)

and a, b satisfy the decay conditions

\int_{0}^{\infty} Φ_{p^{'}} (a (t)) d t < + \infty, \int_{0}^{\infty} Φ_{q^{'}} (b (t)) d t < + \infty,

(2.2)

where $m = min {p, q}$ , then problem (1.1) has no positive entire radial large solution.

Proof Our proof is by the method of contradiction. That is, we assume that system (1.1) has the positive entire radial large solution

(u, v)

. From (1.1), we know that

Now, we set

U (r) = max_{0 \leq t \leq r} u (r), V (r) = max_{0 \leq t \leq r} v (r) .

It is easy to see that

(U, V)

are positive and nondecreasing functions. Moreover, we have

U \geq u

,

V \geq v

and

U (r), V (r) \to + \infty

as

r \to + \infty

. It follows from (2.1) that there exists

C_{0}

such that

max {f (s, t), g (s, t)} < C_{0} {(s + t)}^{m - 1}, s + t \geq 1

(2.3)

and

max {f (s, t), g (s, t)} < C_{0}, s + t \leq 1 .

(2.4)

Combining (2.3) and (2.4), we can get

max {f (s, t), g (s, t)} < C_{0} {(1 + s + t)}^{m - 1}, s + t \geq 0 .

(2.5)

Then we have

\begin{array}{rcl} f (u (r), v (r)) & \leq & C_{0} {(1 + u (r) + u (r))}^{m - 1} \\ \leq & C_{0} {(1 + U (r) + V (r))}^{m - 1}, r \geq 0 . \end{array}

Thus, for all

r \geq r_{0} \geq 0

, we obtain

\begin{array}{rcl} u (r) & = & u (r_{0}) + \int_{r_{0}}^{r} Φ_{p^{'}} (M_{1}^{- 1} (t) \int_{0}^{t} M_{1} (s) a (s) f (u (s), v (s)) d s) d t \\ \leq & u (r_{0}) + C \int_{r_{0}}^{r} Φ_{p^{'}} (M_{1}^{- 1} (t) \int_{0}^{t} M_{1} (s) a (s) {(1 + U (s) + V (s))}^{m - 1} d s) d t \\ \leq & u (r_{0}) + C Φ_{p^{'}} ({(1 + U (r) + V (r))}^{m - 1}) \int_{r_{0}}^{r} Φ_{p^{'}} (M_{1}^{- 1} (t) \int_{0}^{t} M_{1} (s) a (s) d s) d t \\ \leq & u (r_{0}) + C (1 + U (r) + V (r)) \int_{r_{0}}^{r} Φ_{p^{'}} (a (t)) d t, \end{array}

where C is a positive constant. Because of

m = min {p, q}

, the last inequality above is valid for

0 < m - 1 < p - 1

. Noticing that (2.2), we choose

r_{0} > 0

such that

max {\int_{r_{0}}^{\infty} Φ_{p^{'}} (a (r)) d r, \int_{r_{0}}^{\infty} Φ_{q^{'}} (b (r)) d r} < \frac{1}{4 C} .

(2.6)

It follows that

{lim}_{r \to \infty} u (r) = {lim}_{r \to \infty} v (r) = \infty

, and we can find

r_{1} > r_{0}

such that

\bar{U} (r) = max_{r_{0 \leq t \leq r}} u (t), \bar{V} (r) = max_{r_{0 \leq t \leq r}} v (t), r \geq r_{1} .

(2.7)

Thus, we have

\bar{U} (r) \leq u (r_{0}) + C (1 + \bar{U} (r) + \bar{V} (r)) \int_{r_{0}}^{r} Φ_{p^{'}} (a (t)) d t, r \geq r_{1} .

From (2.6), we can get

\bar{U} (r) \leq u (r_{0}) + \frac{(1 + \bar{U} (r) + \bar{V} (r))}{4}, r \geq r_{1},

that is,

\bar{U} (r) \leq C_{1} + \frac{(\bar{U} (r) + \bar{V} (r))}{4}, r \geq r_{1},

where

C_{1} = C + \frac{1}{4} + u (r_{0})

,

r \geq r_{1}

. Similarly,

\bar{V} (r) \leq C_{2} + \frac{(\bar{U} (r) + \bar{V} (r))}{4}, r \geq r_{1},

then we can get

\bar{U} (r) + \bar{V} (r) \leq 2 (C_{1} + C_{2}), r \geq r_{1},

(2.8)

which means that U and V are bounded and so u and v are bounded, which is a contradiction. It follows that (1.1) has no positive entire radial large solutions. □

Remark 1 In fact, through a slight change of the proofs of Theorem 1, we can obtain the same result as that of problem (1.1). That is, if

p, q > 2

and f, g satisfy

max {sup_{s + t \geq 1} \frac{f (s, t)}{s + t}, sup_{s + t \geq 1} \frac{g (s, t)}{s + t}} < + \infty,

and a, b satisfy the decay conditions (2.2), then problem (1.1) still has no positive entire radial large solution.

Secondly, we give existence results of positive entire solutions of system (1.1).

Theorem 2 Suppose that

F (\infty) = \infty .

Then system (1.1) has infinitely many positive entire solutions

(u, v) \in C^{2} [0, + \infty)

. Moreover, the following hold:

(i)

If a and b satisfy $H_{p} a (\infty) = H_{q} b (\infty) = \infty$ , then all entire positive solutions of (1.1) are large.
(ii)

If a and b satisfy $H_{p} a (\infty) < \infty$ , $H_{q} b (\infty) < \infty$ , then all entire positive solutions of (1.1) are bounded.

Proof We start by showing that (1.1) has positive radial solutions. To this end, we fix

c, d > β

and show that the system

{\begin{matrix} {({| u^{'} |}^{p - 2} u^{'})}^{'} + \frac{N - 1}{r} ({| u^{'} |}^{p - 2} u^{'}) + m_{1} (r) {| u^{'} |}^{p - 1} = a (r) f (u, v), \\ {({| v^{'} |}^{q - 2} v^{'})}^{'} + \frac{N - 1}{r} ({| v^{'} |}^{q - 2} v^{'}) + m_{2} (r) {| v^{'} |}^{q - 1} = b (r) g (u, v), \\ u^{'}, v^{'} \geq 0 on [0, \infty), \\ u (0) = d > 0, v (0) = c > 0, \end{matrix}

(2.9)

has solutions

(u, v)

. Thus,

U (x) = u (| x |)

,

V (x) = v (| x |)

are positive solutions of system (1.1). Integrating (2.9), we have

Let

{u_{k}}_{k \geq 0}

and

{v_{k}}_{k \geq 0}

be sequences of positive continuous functions defined on

[0, \infty)

by

{\begin{matrix} u_{0} (r) = d, v_{0} (r) = c, \\ u_{k + 1} (r) = d + \int_{0}^{r} Φ_{p^{'}} (M_{1}^{- 1} (t) \int_{0}^{t} M_{1} (s) a (s) f (u_{k}, v_{k}) d s) d t, r \geq 0, \\ v_{k + 1} (r) = c + \int_{0}^{r} Φ_{q^{'}} (M_{2}^{- 1} (t) \int_{0}^{t} M_{2} (s) b (s) g (u_{k}, v_{k}) d s) d t, r \geq 0 . \end{matrix}

Obviously, $u_{k} (r) \geq c$ , $v_{k} (r) \geq d$ , $u_{0} \leq u_{1}$ , $v_{0} \leq v_{1}$ for all $r \geq 0$ . And the monotonicity of f and g yields $u_{1} (r) \leq u_{2} (r)$ , $v_{1} (r) \leq v_{2} (r)$ for $r \geq 0$ .

Repeating such arguments, we can deduce that

u_{k} (r) \leq u_{k + 1} (r), v_{k} (r) \leq v_{k + 1} (r), for r \geq 0, k \geq 1,

and

{u_{k}}_{k \geq 0}

,

{v_{k}}_{k \geq 0}

are nondecreasing sequences on

[0, \infty)

. Noticing that

\begin{array}{rcl} u_{k + 1}^{'} (r) & = & Φ_{p^{'}} (M_{1}^{- 1} (r) \int_{0}^{r} M_{1} (s) a (s) f (u_{k} (r), v_{k} (r)) d s) \\ \leq & Φ_{p^{'}} (f (u_{k} (r), v_{k} (r))) Φ_{p^{'}} (M_{1}^{- 1} (r) \int_{0}^{r} M_{1} (s) a (s) d s) \\ \leq & [Φ_{p^{'}} (f (u_{k + 1} + v_{k + 1}, u_{k + 1} + v_{k + 1})) + Φ_{q^{'}} (g (u_{k + 1} + v_{k + 1}, u_{k + 1} + v_{k + 1}))] \\ \times Φ_{p^{'}} (M_{1}^{- 1} (r) \int_{0}^{r} M_{1} (s) a (s) d s), \end{array}

and

\begin{array}{rcl} v_{k + 1}^{'} (r) & = & Φ_{q^{'}} (M_{2}^{- 1} (r) \int_{0}^{r} M_{2} (s) b (s) g (u_{k} (r), v_{k} (r)) d s) \\ \leq & Φ_{q^{'}} (g (u_{k} (r), v_{k} (r))) Φ_{q^{'}} (M_{2}^{- 1} (r) \int_{0}^{r} M_{2} (s) b (s) d s) \\ \leq & [Φ_{p^{'}} (f (u_{k + 1} + v_{k + 1}, u_{k + 1} + v_{k + 1})) + Φ_{q^{'}} (g (u_{k + 1} + v_{k + 1}, u_{k + 1} + v_{k + 1}))] \\ \times Φ_{q^{'}} (M_{2}^{- 1} (r) \int_{0}^{r} M_{2} (s) b (s) d s), \end{array}

it follows that

Then we can get

that is,

F (u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r)) - F (b + c) \leq H_{p} a (r) + H_{q} b (r), r \geq 0 .

(2.10)

It follows from

F^{- 1}

is increasing on

[0, \infty)

and (2.10) that

u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r) \leq F^{- 1} (H_{p} a (r) + H_{q} b (r) + F (b + c)), r \geq 0 .

(2.11)

And from

F (\infty) = \infty

, we know that

F^{- 1} (\infty) = \infty

. By (2.11), the sequences

u_{k}

and

v_{k}

are bounded and increasing on

[0, c_{0}]

for any

c_{0} > 0

. Thus,

u_{k}

and

v_{k}

have subsequences converging uniformly to u and v on

[0, c_{0}]

. Consequently,

(u, v)

is a positive solution of (2.9); therefore,

(U, V)

is an entire positive solution of (1.1). Noticing that

U (0) = c

,

V (0) = d

and

(c, d) \in (0, \infty) \times (0, \infty)

are chosen arbitrarily, we can obtain that system (1.1) has infinitely many positive entire solutions.

(i)

If $H_{p} a (\infty) = H_{q} b (\infty) = \infty$ , since $u (r) \geq c + Φ_{p^{'}} (f (c, d)) H_{p} a (r)$ , $v (r) \geq d + Φ_{q^{'}} (g (c, d)) H_{q} b (r)$ for $r \geq 0$ , we have
$lim_{r \to \infty} u (r) = lim_{r \to \infty} v (r) = \infty,$

which yields

(U, V)

is the positive entire large solution of (1.1).

(ii)

If $H_{p} a (\infty) < \infty$ , $H_{q} b (\infty) < \infty$ , then
$u (r) + v (r) \leq F^{- 1} (F (b + c) + H_{p} a (\infty) + H_{q} b (\infty)) < \infty,$

which implies that $(U, V)$ is the positive entire bounded solution of system (1.1). Thus, the proof of Theorem 2 is finished.

□

Theorem 3 If

F (\infty) < \infty

,

H_{p} a (\infty) < \infty

,

H_{q} b (\infty) < \infty

, and there exist

c > β

,

d > β

such that

H_{p} a (\infty) + H_{q} b (\infty) < F (\infty) - F (c + d),

(2.12)

then system (1.1) has an entire positive radial bounded solution

(u, v) \in C^{1 + θ} ([0, \infty)) \times C^{1 + θ} ([0, \infty))

(for

0 < θ < 1

) satisfying

Proof If the condition (2.12) holds, then we have

\begin{array}{rcl} F (u_{k} + v_{k} (r)) & \leq & F (c + d) + H_{p} a (r) + H_{q} b (r) \\ \leq & F (c + d) + H_{p} a (\infty) + H_{q} b (\infty) < F (\infty) < \infty . \end{array}

Since

F^{- 1}

is strictly increasing on

[0, \infty)

, we have

u_{k} + v_{k} (r) \leq F^{- 1} (F (b + c) + H_{p} a (\infty) + H_{q} b (\infty)) < \infty .

The rest of the proof obviously holds from the proof of Theorem 2. The proof of Theorem 3 is now finished. □

Theorem 4

(i)

If
$H_{p} a (\infty) = H_{q} b (\infty) = \infty,$

and

lim_{s \to \infty} \frac{f (s, s) + g (s, s)}{s} = 0,

(2.13)

then system (1.1) has infinitely many positive entire large solutions.

(ii)

If $H_{p} a (\infty) < \infty$ , $H_{q} b (\infty) < \infty$ , and
$sup_{s \geq 0} (f (s, s) + g (s, s)) < \infty,$

then system (1.1) has infinitely many positive entire bounded solutions.

Proof

(i)

It follows from the proof of Theorem 2 that
$\begin{array}{rcl} u_{k} (r) & \leq & u_{k + 1} (r) \leq Φ_{p^{'}} (f (u_{k} (r), v_{k} (r))) H_{p} a (r) \\ \leq & Φ_{p^{'}} (f (u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r), u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r))) H_{p} a (r) \end{array}$

(2.14)

and

\begin{array}{rcl} v_{k} (r) & \leq & v_{k + 1} (r) \leq Φ_{q^{'}} (g (u_{k} (r), v_{k} (r))) H_{q} b (r) \\ \leq & Φ_{q^{'}} (g (u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r), u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r))) H_{q} b (r) . \end{array}

(2.15)

Choosing an arbitrary

R > 0

, from (2.14) and (2.15), we can get

\begin{array}{rcl} u_{k} (R) + v_{k} (R) & \leq & c + d + Φ_{p^{'}} (f (u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r), u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r))) H_{p} a (r) \\ + Φ_{q^{'}} (g (u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r), u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r))) H_{q} b (r) \\ \leq & c + d + [Φ_{p^{'}} (f (u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r), u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r))) + Φ_{q^{'}} (g (u_{k} (r) \\ + v_{k} (r), u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r)))] (H_{p} a (r) + H_{q} b (r)), k \geq 1, \end{array}

which implies

\begin{array}{rcl} 1 & \leq & \frac{c + d}{u_{k} (R) + v_{k} (R)} \\ + \frac{Φ_{p^{'}} (f (u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r), u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r))) + Φ_{q^{'}} (g (u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r), u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r)))}{u_{k} (R) + v_{k} (R)} \\ \times (H_{p} a (r) + H_{q} b (r)), k \geq 1 . \end{array}

(2.16)

Taking account of the monotonicity of

{(u_{k} (R) + v_{k} (R))}_{k \geq 1}

, there exists

L (R) = lim_{k \to \infty} (u_{k} (R) + v_{k} (R)) .

We claim that

L (R)

is finite. Indeed, if not, we let

k \to \infty

in (2.16) and the assumption (2.13) leads to a contradiction. Thus,

L (R)

is finite. Since

u_{k}

,

v_{k}

are increasing functions, it follows that the map

L : (0, \infty) \to (0, \infty)

is nondecreasing and

u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r) \leq u_{k} (R) + v_{k} (R) \leq L (R), r \in [0, R], k \geq 1 .

Thus, the sequences

{(u_{k})}_{k \geq 1}

and

{(v_{k})}_{k \geq 1}

are bounded from above on bounded sets. Let

u (r) = lim_{k \to \infty} u_{k} (r), v (r) = lim_{k \to \infty} v_{k} (r), r \geq 0,

then $(u, v)$ is a positive solution of (2.9).

In order to conclude the proof, we need to show that

(u, v)

is a large solution of (2.9). By the proof of Theorem 2, we have

u (r) \geq c + Φ_{p^{'}} (f (c, d)) H_{p} a (r), v (r) \geq d + Φ_{q^{'}} (g (c, d)) H_{q} b (r), r \geq 0 .

And because f and g are positive functions and

H_{p} a (\infty) = H_{q} b (\infty) = \infty,

we can conclude that

(u, v)

is a large solution of (2.9) and so

(U, V)

is a positive entire large solution of (1.1). Thus, any large solution of (2.9) provides a positive entire large solution

(U, V)

of (1.1) with

U (0) = c

and

V (0) = d

. Since

(c, d) \in (0, \infty) \times (0, \infty)

was chosen arbitrarily, it follows that (1.1) has infinitely many positive entire large solutions.

(ii)

If
$sup_{s \geq 0} (f (s, s) + g (s, s)) < \infty,$

holds, then by (2.16), we have

L (R) = lim_{k \to \infty} (u_{k} (R) + v_{k} (R)) < \infty .

Thus,

u_{k} (r) + v_{k} (r) \leq u_{k} (R) + v_{k} (R) \leq L (R), r \in [0, R], k \geq 1 .

Thus, the sequences

{(u_{k})}_{k \geq 1}

and

{(v_{k})}_{k \geq 1}

are bounded from above on bounded sets. Let

u (r) = lim_{k \to \infty} u_{k} (r), v (r) = lim_{k \to \infty} v_{k} (r), r \geq 0,

then $(u, v)$ is a positive solution of (2.9).

It follows from (2.14) and (2.15) that $(u, v)$ is bounded, which implies that (1.1) has infinitely many positive entire bounded solutions. □

Declarations

Acknowledgements

The first and second authors were supported by the National Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China (ZR2012AM018) and Changwon National University in 2013, respectively. The authors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the anonymous reviewers for their insightful and constructive comments.

Authors’ Affiliations

(1)

School of Mathematical Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, P.R. China

(2)

Department of Mathematics, Changwon National University, Changwon, 641-773, Republic of Korea

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Existence and nonexistence of entire positive solutions for ( p , q ) -Laplacian elliptic system with a gradient term

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Existence and nonexistence of entire positive solutions for $(p, q)$ -Laplacian elliptic system with a gradient term