Existence and uniqueness of positive large solutions to some cooperative elliptic systems

Abstract

In this work we consider positive solutions to cooperative elliptic systems of the form −∆u = λu−u2 +buv, −∆v = µv −v2 +cuv in a bounded smooth domain Ω ⊂ RN (λ, µ ∈ R, b, c > 0) which blow up on the boundary ∂Ω, that is u(x), v(x) → +∞ as dist(x, ∂Ω) → 0. We show existence and nonexistence of solutions, and give sufficient conditions for uniqueness. We also provide an exact estimate of the behaviour of the solutions near the boundary in terms of dist(x, ∂Ω).