Coupled versus uncoupled blow-up rates in cooperative \(n\)-species logistic systems (Q2363894)

Let \(\Omega\) be a bounded in \(\mathbb R^N, N\in\mathbb N\), of class \(\mathcal C ^{2+\nu},\) for some \(\nu\in (0,1)\). The paper deals with the blow-up rate of the classical positive solution of the singular boundary value problem: \[ -\Delta u_i=\lambda_i (x)u_i+\sum_{j=1,j\not=i}^n a_{ij}u_j-a_i(x)u_i^{p_i},\quad x\in\Omega,\eqno (1) \] with the condition \[ u_i=+\infty \text{ on } \partial\Omega,\quad \text{i.e. } \underset{\text{dist}(x,\partial \Omega)\downarrow 0} \lim{u_i(x)}=+\infty,\quad i=1,2,...,n. \eqno(2) \] Here, \(a_{ij}>0\) and \(p_i>1\) are constants, \(\lambda_i,a_i, \in \mathcal C^{\nu}(\bar{\Omega})\). Moreover \(a_i(x)>0\) for \(x\in\Omega\). To the problem (1)-(2), the uncoupled problem \[ -\Delta u_i=\lambda_i (x)u_i-a_i(x)u_i^{p_i}\quad x\in\Omega, \] with condition (2), is associated. It is assumed that there exist \(b_i,\gamma_i\in\mathcal C (\partial\Omega)\), with \(b_i>0\) and \(\gamma_i\geq 0\), such that \[ \underset{x\in\Omega, z\in\partial\Omega} {\underset{x\to z}\lim }\frac{a_i(x)}{b_i(z)[\text{dist}(x,\partial\Omega)] ^{\gamma_i(z)}} =1, \quad 1\leq i\leq n. \] In the abstract, the authors write: ``Our main result provides with the exact blow-up rates along the edges of \(\Omega\) from the values of the blow-up rates of the underlying uncoupled system. Rather astonishingly, these blow-up rates are independent of the strength of the cooperative effects, which play a secondary role in the analysis carried out in this paper. No previous results of this nature is available in the specialized literature for more than \(n=2\).'' The paper is illustrated with several tables and figures.