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Classification of solutions for some elliptic system

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In this paper, we classify the solution of the following elliptic system

$$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \displaystyle -\Delta u(x)=e^{3v(x)}, &{}\quad x\in {\mathbb {R}}^4, \\ \\ \displaystyle (-\Delta )^2v(x)=u(x)^4, &{}\quad x\in {\mathbb {R}}^4. \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$

Under some assumptions, we will show that the solution has the following form

$$\begin{aligned} u(x)=\frac{C_1(\varepsilon )}{\varepsilon ^2+|x-x_0|^2},\ v(x)=\ln \frac{C_2(\varepsilon )}{\varepsilon ^2+|x-x_0|^2}, \end{aligned}$$

where \(C_1,C_2\) are two positive constants depending only on \(\varepsilon \) and \(x_0\) is a fixed point in \({\mathbb {R}}^4.\)

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The author would like to thank Prof. Dong Ye for giving the proof of Lemma 2.4. The author also thank the anonymous referee for his/her valuable suggestions. This work is supported by NSFC, No. 12171212.

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Yu, X. Classification of solutions for some elliptic system. Calc. Var. 61, 151 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-022-02258-9

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