Symmetry and monotonicity properties of singular solutions to some cooperative semilinear elliptic systems involving critical nonlinearities

Francesco Esposito

doi:10.3934/dcds.2020022

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2020, Volume 40, Issue 1: 549-577. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020022

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Symmetry and monotonicity properties of singular solutions to some cooperative semilinear elliptic systems involving critical nonlinearities

Francesco Esposito^1,2,

1.
Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Via P. Bucci 31B - Rende (CS), 87036, Italy
2.
Université de Picardie Jules Verne, LAMFA, CNRS UMR 7352, Rue Saint-Leu 33 - Amiens, 80039, France

Received: March 31, 2019

Revised: June 30, 2019

Published: October 2019

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We investigate qualitative properties of positive singular solutions of some elliptic systems in bounded and unbounded domains. We deduce symmetry and monotonicity properties via the moving plane procedure. Moreover, in the unbounded case, we study some cooperative elliptic systems involving critical nonlinearities in $ {\mathbb{R}}^n $.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J55, 35B05; Secondary: 35B06, 35B33, 35J50, 35J45.

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