Monotonicity results for quasilinear fractional systems in epigraphs (Q2107767)

This paper is concerned with the monotonicity of positive solutions to the quasilinear fractional system \[ \begin{cases} (-\Delta)^s_pu=f(x,u,v),& x\in \Omega, \\ (-\Delta)^s_qu =g(x,u,v),& x\in \Omega, \\ u=v=0&x\in\mathbb R^N\backslash\Omega,\end{cases}\tag{1} \] where \(\Omega\) is a coercive or non-coercive epigraph, such as the halfspace \(\mathbb R^n_+\), \(0 < s,t < 1\) and \(p, q\geq 2\). By combining a new decay at infinity principle with the direct method of moving planes, the authors obtain the monotonicity results for the solutions of (1), which extend and improve recent works in the literature even in the case of a single equation.