On the uniqueness of solutions of a nonlocal elliptic system

Mathematische Annalen - Tập 365 - Trang 105-153 - 2015
Kelei Wang1,2, Juncheng Wei3,4
1School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
2Computational Science Hubei Key Laboratory, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
3Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
4Department of Mathematics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

Tóm tắt

We consider the following elliptic system with fractional Laplacian $$\begin{aligned} -(-\Delta )^su=uv^2,\, \, -(-\Delta )^sv=vu^2,\, \, u,v>0 \ \mathrm{on}\, {\mathbb R}^n, \end{aligned}$$ where $$s\in (0,1)$$ and $$(-\Delta )^s$$ is the s-Lapalcian. We first prove that all positive solutions must have polynomial bound. Then we use the Almgren monotonicity formula to perform a blown-down analysis. Finally we use the method of moving planes to prove the uniqueness of the one dimensional profile, up to translation and scaling.

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