Existence and boundary behaviour of radial solutions for weighted elliptic systems with gradient terms

Abstract

We are concerned with the existence and boundary behaviour of positive radial solutions for the system \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{aligned} \Delta u&=|x|^{a}v^{p} &&\quad\mbox{ in } \Omega, \\ \Delta v&=|x|^{b}v^{q}f(|\nabla u|) &&\quad\mbox{ in } \Omega, \end{aligned} \right. \end{equation*} where $\Omega \subset \bR^N$ is either a ball centered at the origin or the whole space $\bR^N$, $a$, $b$, $p$, $q> 0$, and $f \in C^1[0, \infty)$ is an increasing function such that $f(t)> 0$ for all $t> 0$. Firstly, we study the existence of positive radial solutions in case when the system is posed in a ball corresponding to their behaviour at the boundary. Next, we take $f(t) = t^s$, $s> 1$, $\Omega = \bR^N$ and by the use of dynamical system techniques we are able to describe the behaviour at infinity for such positive radial solutions.