Decay properties of the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev systems of the Lane-Emden type

TL;DR

This paper investigates the decay behavior of positive solutions to Lane-Emden and Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev systems, establishing criteria for fast or slow decay based on integrability and providing insights into their asymptotic properties.

Contribution

It introduces a criterion to distinguish fast and slow decay rates of solutions based on their integrability, linking decay behavior to solution properties in these nonlinear systems.

Findings

Bounded solutions decay either fast or slow at infinity.

Integrable solutions exhibit fast decay.

Non-integrable solutions decay almost slowly.

Abstract

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of positive solutions of the nonlinear differential systems of Lane-Emden type $2k$-order equations $$\{{array}{l} (-\Delta)^k u=v^q,u>0 \quad in ~R^n, (-\Delta)^k v=u^p,v>0 \quad in ~R^n, {array}. $$ and the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev (HLS) type system of nonlinear equations $$ \{{array}{l} u(x)=\displaystyle\int_{R^n}\frac{v^q(y)dy}{|x-y|^{n-\alpha}},u>0 \quad in ~R^n, v(x)=\displaystyle\int_{R^n}\frac{u^p(y)dy}{|x-y|^{n-\alpha}},u>0 \quad in ~R^n. {array}. $$ Such an integral system is related to the study the extremal functions of the HLS inequality. We point out that the bounded solutions $u,v$ converge to zero either with the fast decay rates or with the slow decay rates when $|x| \to \infty$ under some assumptions. In addition, we also find a criterion to distinguish the fast and the slow decay rates: if $u,v$ are the integrable solutions (i.e. $(u,v) \in L^{r_0}(R^n) \times L^{s_0}(R^n)$), then they decay fast; if the bounded solutions $u,v$ are not the integrable solutions (i.e. $(u,v) \not\in L^{r_0}(R^n) \times L^{s_0}(R^n)$), then they decay almost slowly. Here, for the HLS type system, $r_0=\frac{n(pq-1)}{\alpha(q+1)}$, $s_0=\frac{n(pq-1)}{\alpha(p+1)}$; and for the Lane-Emden type system, $r_0,s_0$ are still the forms above where $\alpha$ is replaced by $2k$.