Nonexistence results for classes of \(3 \times 3\) elliptic systems (Q622421)

The following system \[ \begin{cases} -\Delta u = \lambda f(v,w), &x \in \Omega, \\ -\Delta v = \mu g(u,w), &x \in \Omega, \\ -\Delta w = \sigma h(u,v), &x \in \Omega, \\ u=v=w=0, &x \in \partial \Omega, \end{cases} \] is considered, where \(\Omega\) is a ball in \(\mathbb R^N\), \(N>1\), \(\partial\Omega\) is its boundary, \(\lambda\), \(\mu\), \(\sigma\) are positive parameters bounded away from zero, and \(f\), \(g\), \(h\) are smooth functions that are negative at the origin and satisfy certain linear growth conditions at infinity. It is shown that the system has no positive solution if two of the parameters \(\lambda\), \(\mu\), \(\sigma\) are large. The proof is based on energy analysis and comparison methods.