ELLIPTIC SYSTEMS INVOLVING COMPETING INTERACTIONS WITH NONLINEAR DIFFUSIONS

ELLIPTIC SYSTEMS INVOLVING COMPETING INTERACTIONS WITH NONLINEAR DIFFUSIONS

Our interest is to study the existence of positive solutions to the following elliptic system involving competing interaction $$ (1) { -\partial(x,u,\upsilon)\Delta u = uf(x,u,v) { - \psi(x,u,\upsilon)\Delta \upsilon = \upsilon g(x,u,\upsilon) { \frac{\partial n}{\partial u} + ku = 0 on \partial\Omega { \frac{\partial n}{\partial\upsilon} + \sigma\upsilon = 0 $$ in a bounded region $\Omega$ in $R^n$ with a smooth boundary, where the diffusion terms $\varphi, \psi$ are strictly positive nondecreasing function, and k, $\sigma$ are positive constants. Also we assume that the growth rates f, g are $C^1$ monotone functions. The variables u, $\upsilon$ may represent the population densities of the interacting species in problems from ecology, microbiology, immunology, etc.