Decaying solutions of elliptic systems in \(\mathbb{R}^ n\) (Q1815496)

Let \(n\geq 3\); the following nonlinear elliptic system is considered in \(\mathbb{R}^n\): \[ -\Delta\vec u=\begin{pmatrix} \lambda_1 & 0\\ 0 & \lambda_m\end{pmatrix} \vec f(x,\vec u). \] The paper treats the question of existence of positive decaying (componentwise) solutions for both \(\vec\lambda:(\lambda_1,\dots,\lambda_m)>0\) small and \(\vec\lambda>0\) arbitrary. Basic tools are certain estimates of Gidas, Ni, Nirenberg and Egnell coupled with the degree theory arguments in weighted spaces. Some variational cases are considered as well.