Existence, uniqueness and stability of positive solutions for a class of semilinear elliptic systems (Q2440839)

Let \(\Omega\subset {\mathbb R}^n\) be a bounded domain with smooth boundary and assume that \(f\) and \(g\) are smooth real-valued functions defined on \([0,\infty)\times [0,\infty)\) such that \(f_u(u,v)\geq 0\) and \(g_u(u,v)\geq 0\) for all \((u,v)\in [0,\infty)\times [0,\infty)\). This paper deals with the qualitative analysis of positive solutions of the cooperative semilinear elliptic system \[ \Delta u+\lambda f(u,v)=0,\quad \Delta v+\lambda g(u,v)=0, \] subject to the Dirichlet boundary condition \(u=v=0\) on \(\partial\Omega\). Under natural sublinearity assumptions, the first main result of this paper establishes a stability property of the solutions. Next, using the stability result and related bifurcation properties, the authors prove the existence and uniqueness of the positive solution and obtain the precise global bifurcation diagram of the system. An application to the logistic system is provided in the final section of this paper.