Nonexistence of nonnegative entire solutions of semilinear elliptic systems

Abstract

We consider the second order semilinear elliptic system $\Delta u= p\left( x\right) v^\alpha,$ $\Delta v= q\left(x\right) u^\beta,$ where $x \in \mathbf{R}^N,$ $N \geq 3,$ $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are positive constants, $p$ and $q$ are nonnegative continuous functions. We prove that nontrivial nonnegative entire solutions fail to exist if the functions $p$ and $q$ are of slow decay.