Symmetry results for cooperative elliptic systems in unbounded domains (Q2926583)

In this paper, symmetry results for classical solutions of the semilinear cooperative elliptic system NEWLINE\[NEWLINE - \Delta U = F(|x|,U) \quad \text{in} \;\OmegaNEWLINE\]NEWLINE are given, where \(\Omega\) is either \({\mathbb R}^N\) or the exterior of a ball, \(N \geq 2\) and \(F=(f,\dots,f_m)\): \([0,\infty) \times {\mathbb R}^m \to {\mathbb R}^m\), \(m \geq 2\), is locally a \(C^{1,\alpha}\) function. It is shown that solutions are foliated Schwarz symmetric if a bound on their Morse index holds. As a consequence of the symmetry results, some nonexistence theorems are also established.