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November  2013, 12(6): 2685-2696. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.2685

## Regularity, symmetry and uniqueness of positive solutions to a nonlinear elliptic system

 1 Department of Mathematics, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330022, China, China, China

Received  September 2012 Revised  December 2012 Published  May 2013

In this paper, we are concerned with properties of positive solutions of the following fractional elliptic system \begin{eqnarray} {(-\Delta+I)}^{\frac{\alpha}{2}}u=\frac{u^pv^q}{|x|^\beta}, \quad {(-\Delta+I)}^{\frac{\alpha}{2}}v=\frac{v^pu^q}{|x|^\beta}\quad in\quad R^n, \end{eqnarray} where $n \geq 3$, $0 \le \beta < \alpha < n$, $p, q>1$ and $p+q<\frac{n+\alpha-\beta}{n-\alpha+\beta}$. We show that positive solutions of the system are radially symmetric and belong to $L^\infty(R^n)$, which possibly implies that the solutions are locally Hölder continuous. Moreover, if $\alpha=2, \beta =0,p\le q$, we show that positive solution pair $(u,v)$ of the system is unique and $u=v = U$, where $U$ is the unique positive solution of the problem \begin{eqnarray} -\Delta u + u = u^{p+q}\quad {\rm in}\quad \mathbb{R}^n. \end{eqnarray}
Citation: Shiren Zhu, Xiaoli Chen, Jianfu Yang. Regularity, symmetry and uniqueness of positive solutions to a nonlinear elliptic system. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2013, 12 (6) : 2685-2696. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.2685
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