Stability of positive radial steady states for the parabolic Hénon–Lane–Emden system

Abstract

When it comes to the nonlinear heat equation $u_t-\Delta u=u^p$, the stability of positive radial steady states in the supercritical case was established in the classical paper by Gui, Ni and Wang. We extend this result to systems of reaction–diffusion equations by studying the positive radial steady states of the parabolic Hénon–Lane–Emden system $\left(\begin{array}{ccc}{u}_t-\Delta u& ={\left|x\right|}^k{v}^p& \text{in}{R}^n\times (0,\infty ),\\ v_t-\Delta v& ={\left|x\right|}^l{u}^q& \text{in}{R}^n\times (0,\infty ),\end{array}\right)$where $k,l\ge 0$, $p,q\ge 1$ and $pq>1$. Assume that $(p,q)$ lies either on or above the Joseph–Lundgren critical curve which arose in the work of Chen, Dupaigne and Ghergu. Then all positive radial steady states have the same asymptotic behavior at infinity, and they are all stable solutions of the parabolic Hénon–Lane–Emden system in $R^n$.