Existence and asymptotic behavior of positive solutions of a semilinear elliptic system in a bounded domain (Q2805259)

The authors are concerned with the following elliptic system NEWLINE\[NEWLINE -\Delta u=a_1(x) u^\alpha v^r\quad\text{ in }\Omega, NEWLINE\]NEWLINE NEWLINE\[NEWLINE -\Delta v=a_2(x) v^\beta u^s \quad\text{ in }\Omega, NEWLINE\]NEWLINE subject to homogeneous boundary conditions. Here \(\Omega\subset{\mathbb R}^N\) is a smooth and bounded domain, \(a_1\), \(a_2\) are continuous and nonnegative functions, \(r,s\in {\mathbb R}\), \(\alpha,\beta<1\), \(\gamma:=(1-\alpha)(1-\beta)-rs>0\). Under various assumptions on the behaviour of \(a_1\) and \(a_2\) at the boundary of the domain \(\Omega\), the authors discuss the existence and asymptotic behaviour of solutions \((u,v)\) to the above system in the frame of Karamata regular variation theory.